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

WEEK OF OCTOBER 15, 2007

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15

Physics Colloquium:
Sankar Das Sarma (Maryland)
"Computing with quantum knots: Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
Tim Perutz
"Lagrangian correspondences for fibered four-manifolds, part 2"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
Marko Djordjevic (Mathematical Biosciences Institute)
"Quantitative modeling and bioinformatics of gene transcription"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Dylan Thurston
"Characterizing generic global rigidity "
4:00 p.m., 622 Mathematics
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Gábor Székelyhidi (Imperial College)
"Optimal test-configurations for unstable toric varieties"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang)
David Whitehouse (MIT)
"Applications of the relative trace formula to central L-values"
NYU, Courant Institute ROOM CHANGE (this week only) TALK: ROOM 613
5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., Tea will be served in Room 613, 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford & Columbia)
“Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds"
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION: 10:00 a.m., 207 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Constantinos Kardaras (Boston)
"Pricing and hedging barrier options in diffusion models via 3-dimensional Bessel processes"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Isidora Milin (Stanford)
"Orderability and (non) squeezing in contact geometry"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
Scott Carter (University of South Alabama)
"Cohomology in self-distributive coalgebras"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Joint Columbia-NYU-Princeton seminar in Algebraic Geometry held at NYU