COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - NOVEMBER 11, 2002

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11

DOUBLE HEADER I: Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Eric Urban
"Deforming reducible Galois representations and applications"
4:00 p.m., 405 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Ling Long
"On Shioda-Inose structures of one parameter families of K3 surfaces"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
Oleg Lunin (IAS)
"AdS_3/CFT_2 duality and giant gravitons"
2:10 p.m., 831 PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
Mike Shaevitz (Physics, Columbia University)
"Are Neutrinos Different"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

SPECIAL SEMINAR:
John Conway (Princeton)
Title: TBA
3:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
 Yum-Tong Siu  (Harvard & Columbia)
"Multiplier Ideal Sheaves in Algebraic and Complex Geometry"
4:15- 5:15 p.m., 507 Math.
 Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math. 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
 Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
John Toth (McGill)
"The remainder in Weyl's law for Heisenberg manifolds"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
 Title: TBA
10:30-12:00 p.m., 417 Math.

Probability: (T. Hayashi)
 Hui Wang (Brown)    
"Importance sampling, large deviations, and differential games (with Paul Dupuis)"
 11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

 DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Walter Neumann
"Series on EL Conjecture: Bowditch's characterization of hyperbolicity"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Nathan Dunfield (Harvard)
Title: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
 Damien Easson (McGill)
"String cosmology and Brane gases"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

 Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Yi-Jen Lee (Princeton)
"Noncontractible periodic orbits, Gromov invariants, and Floer-theoretic torsions"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.

 

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