COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 12,
2005
 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Physics Colloquium:
Chris Hammel
(Ohio State)
"
Ultrasensitive Magnetic Resonance with the Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
(Joint Math/Applied Math/IGERT seminars)
First of three Lectures this week:
Dan McKenzie (University of Cambridge)
"The rheology of the lithosphere"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
Danny Gillam
"
Decompositions and invariant measures"
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
(Joint Math/Applied Math/IGERT seminars)
Second of three Lectures this week:

Dan McKenzie (University of Cambridge)
"Mapping Temperature Using S Wave Velocity"
12:10 p.m.,
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Johan de Jong

"Something we still do not know over finite fields"
5:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
(Joint Math/Applied Math/IGERT seminars)
Third of three Lectures this week:

Dan McKenzie (University of Cambridge)
"The rheology of the lithosphere"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd.

Geometry and Analysis: (P. Daskalopoulos,  X-D. Cao)
Katrin Wehrheim  (Princeton)
"
Symplectic vortex equations in gauge theory"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Constantinos Kardaras (
Statistics)
"The numeraire portfolio and arbitrage in general semimartingale models"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Dylan Thurston
"Shadow surfaces, 3-manifolds, and 4-manifolds"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Christian Zickert (Honorary Faculty Fellow - Aarhus University, Denmark)
"A dilogarithmic formula for the Cheeger-Chern-Simons class"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.