COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF OCTOBER 13, 2003

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13

Physics Colloquium:
N. Phuan Ong (Princeton)
"Phase fluctuations, vorticity and the Nernst effect in the pahse diagram of the cuprates"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Yuri Tschinkel (Universität Göttingen)
"On the arithmetic of K3 surfaces"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

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.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak, L. Szpiro)
Akshay Venkatesh (MIT)
"Arithmetic quantum unique ergodicity on locally symmetric spaces"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

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)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Differential Geometry: (J. Cheeger, D.H. Phong, G. Tian)
Hugh Bray (Columbia)
"Quasi-local mass in general relativity"
Princeton, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Toby Colding (Courant)
"Estimates for the extinction time of the Ricci flow"
Princeton, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Gia Dvali (NYU)
"Alternative cosmic clocks"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
"Dissolving crystals and Gromov-Witten invariants"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.