COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10, 2003

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Physics Colloquium:
Leonard Susskind (Stanford)
"The antropic landscape of string theory"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Frank Merle (Université de Cergy-Pontoise and IAS)
"Understanding formation of singulatity in critical nonlinear Schrodinger equations"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13

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)
Ehud De-Shalit (Hebrew University & Harvard)
"Harmonic analysis on buildings and the cohomology of p-adically uniformized varieties"
Columbia University, 312 Math. Bldg., 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Joint Colloqium with Applied Mathematics
Philip Protter (Cornell)
"Liquidity risk and arbitrage pricing theory"
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)
Genevieve Walsh (UT Austin)
"Finite covers of two-bridge knot complements"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

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

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Sasha Braverman (Harvard)
"Intersection theory of parabolic Uhlenbeck schemes"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.