COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF OCTOBER 7, 2002

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
KC Cole (Los Angeles Times)

"Lost in the translation"
4:15 p.m., 428 Pupin Hall.
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet)
Frank Calegari (Berkeley)
"Limits of modular eigenforms"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yum-Tong Siu  (Harvard & Columbia)
"Multiplier ideal sheaves in algebraic and complex geometry"
4:15- 5:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math. 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos, P. Ozsváth)
Zoltan Szabo (Princeton)
"Holomorphic disks and invariants in low-dimensional toplogy"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

Duke-Rutgers-Columbia String Theory: (Greene, Schalm)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:30 p.m., Video-broadcast To: 908 Pupin.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Mu-Tao Wang
"
The Dirichlet problem for minimal surface systems"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 2:00-3:30 p.m., 417 Math.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Srinivasa Varadhan (NYU
)
"Large deviations of random walks in random environments"
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)
Benson Farb (Chicago)
"
Volume, degree, and nonpositive curvature"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Kalle Karu (Harvard)
"The hard Lefschetz theorem for nonrational polytopes"

3:30 p.m., 507 Math.

 

 

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