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


WEEK OF OCTOBER 23, 2006
 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23

Physics Colloquium:
Licia Verde (Penn)
"Connecting the cosmos with quarks: The promise of precision cosmology"

4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (L. Polvani)
Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series
"Development and application of a conserved variable coordinate model of
     tropical cyclones
"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Special Probability: (P. Bank)

Walter Schachermayer (Vienna University of Technology)
A mini course of four lectures on
Functional-Analytic Methods in Finance-Part 1
3:00 p.m., Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25

Special Probability: (P. Bank)
Walter Schachermayer (Vienna University of Technology)
A mini course of four lectures on
Functional-Analytic Methods in Finance-Part II
3:00 p.m., Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. SesumZ. Hou)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. SarnakL. Szpiro)
Xinyi Yuan
"Big line bundles"

CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198.
C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Eric Urban
"Crystalline representations and \phi-modules after Kisin"
9:30 a.m.-11:00am., 207 Math

Probability: (P. Bank)
Walter Schachermayer (Vienna University of Technology)
"
A super-replication theorem in Kabanov’s model of transaction costs"

11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Dylan Thurston
"Combinatorial Heegard-Floer homology: Invariance and invariants of transverse knots"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Mircea Mustaţă (Michigan and IAS)
"Invariants of singularities via Frobenius"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Stefano Vidussi (UC Riverside)
"Symplectic S^1 x N^3 and subgroup separability"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Graeme Segal (All Souls' College, Oxford
& Columbia)
"The Mathematical Stucture of Quantum Field Theories
"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.