COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 22, 2003

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Physics Colloquium:
Konstantin Likharev (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"CMOL and CrossNet: concepts for future nanoelectronics"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Tom Ilmanen (ETH Zürich & Columbia)
"Mean curvature flow"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
Ben Weinkove
"The J-flow and the Mabuchi energy"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak, L. Szpiro)
Elon Lindenstrauss (Courant)
"Invariant measures and the set of exceptions to the Littlewood conjecture"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Dani Wise (McGill)
Nonpositive immersions, the strengthened Hannah Neumann conjecture,
and the coherence of one-relator groups with torsion
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Tom Coates (Harvard)
"Quantization and Gromov-Witten theory"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.