COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF NOVEMBER 3, 2003

 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Physics Colloquium:
NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

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)

K.Soudararajan (Michigan)
"Irregularities of distribution of arithmetic sequences"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m., 
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK:
Tenth Annual CAP Workshop on Derivative Securities and Risk Management

(M. Broadie, P. Glasserman, C. Heyde, S. Kou, and K. Stigman)
8:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Tao Li  (Oklahoma State U.)
TITLE: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

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

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Frank Sottile (Amherst)
"The real story of linear series on P^1
"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.