MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Probability: (P. Bank)
Marc Yor (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
Some aspects of Martingale theory (Lecture Series)
"Lecture 2: Martinagle inequalities at any time. Pseudo stopping times"
11:00-1:00 p.m., Floor 1025 Statistics; 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(Between 121^st and 122^nd St)

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Joe Ross
"Fixed point theorems in mathematical economics"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
David Grier (NYU)
"The guiding light: Transforming mesoscopic matter with holographic optical traps"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Shafer Smith (NYU)
"Diffusion along and across Beta-Driven jets"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd|

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
Dorian Goldfeld
TITLE: TAB
6:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Silver Science Lecture: Barnard Mathematics Department
Dynamics of the nervous system: Its got a beat you can think to
Nancy Kopell (Boston U.)
7:00 p.m., Altschul Atrium, Altschul Hall, BARNARD

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Probability: (P. Bank)
Marc Yor (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
Some aspects of Martingale theory (Lecture Series)
"Lecture 3: Martingales which vanish on the set of Brownian zeroes"
11:00-1:00 p.m., Floor 1025 Statistics; 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(Between 121^st and 122^nd St)

Special Number Theory: (E. Urban)
Laurent Fargues (IHES and Harvard)
"Geometric realization of local Langlands correspondences"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Yakov Grigorievich Sinai (Princeton)
Mathematical Hydrodynamics
4:30 p.m., Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Spiro Karigiannis (McMaster)
"Bundle construction of calibrated submanifolds"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 1:10 p.m., 528 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
John Friedlander (Toronto &IAS, Princeton)
"Divisor problems"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Probability: (P. Bank)
Marc Yor (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
Some aspects of Martingale theory (Lecture Series)
Lecture 4: "Azéma martingales, structure equations, and the chaotic representation property"
11:00-1:00 p.m., Floor 903 Statistics; 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(Between 121^st and 122^nd St)

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt)
"Asymptotic cones of relatively hyperbolic groups and quasi-isometry rigidity"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Jeff Brock  (Brown)
"Pants decompositions of surfaces and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Yi-Jen Lee (Purdue University)
"Heegaard splittings and Seiberg-Witten monopoles"
2:40 p.m., 507 Math.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Yakov Grigorievich Sinai (Princeton)
Mathematical Hydrodynamics
4:30 p.m., 312 Mathematics.  Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.