COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - NOVEMBER 4, 2002
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Academic Holiday - No Classes
Number Theory: (R. Pries,
D. Goldfeld,
H. Jacquet,
S.W. Zhang)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Theory Group
Meeting: (B. Mawhinney,
D. Kabat)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Physics Colloquium:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 5
Election Day -
University Holiday - No Classes
Yum-Tong Siu
(Harvard &
Columbia)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK..
String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene,
Kabat)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.
COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos,
P. Ozsváth)
John Ball
(Oxford University/IAS)
"The
Euler-Lagrange Equation and Minimizers in Elastostatics"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be
served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Geometric Topology: (J. Birman,
W. Neumann,
I. Kofman)
Chris Leininger
"On the curve complex"
1:00 p.m., 5405 Math.
Geometry and
Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J.
Loftin)
Samuel Grushevsky
(Princeton)
"The
effective algebraic Schottky problem"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Workshop
in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W.
Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
10:30-12:00 p.m., 417 Math.
DOUBLE HEADER I:
Geometric Topology: (J. Birman,
W. Neumann,
I. Kofman)
Hiroshi Matsuda (University of Tokyo)
"Closed incompressible
surfaces"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.
Probability: (J.
Vecer)
Daniel Ocone (Rutgers)
"PAC (Probably approximately correct) learning with side information"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621
Math.
DOUBLE HEADER II:
Geometric Topology: (J. Birman,
W. Neumann,
I. Kofman)
John Luecke (UT
Austin)
Title: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.
ISCAP:
(B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Jose Blanco-Pillado (Cambridge)
"The colliding bubble
Braneworld universe"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.
Algebraic Geometry:
(R. Friedman,
M. Thaddeus)
George Daskalopoulos (Brown)
"On the Yang-Mills flow in higher dimensions"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.
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