COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF DECEMBER 1, 2003

 MONDAY, DECEMBER 1

Physics Colloquium:
Makoto Fujiwara (CERN/Tokyo)
"
Casting Light on Antimatter: Production of Cold Antihydrogen and Prospects for Laser Spectroscopy"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Ken Ono (Wisconsin- Madison)
"Class groups and elliptic curves"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

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.

Special Number Theory: (S.W. Zhang)
Alina Carmen Cojocaru (Princeton)
"Reductions of an elliptic curve modulo primes"
4:00 p.m., 405 Math.


Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK:  RESCHEDULED TO Jan. 29, 2004
Bruce Kleiner (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

"The structure of singularities in mean curvature flow of  mean convex  sets in 3-dimensions"


Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Adrian Iovita  (Concordia University, Montreal)
"On the main conjecture for supersingular elliptic curves"
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, DECEMBER 5

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Patrick Cheridito (Princeton)
"Coherent and convex risk measures for continuous-time stochastic processes"
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)
Joe Masters (SUNY Buffalo)
"Heegaard splittings and virtually Haken 3-manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Stephon Alexander (Stanford)
"Baryogenesis from Gravity Waves and CP violation"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Brendan Hassett (Rice)
"
Toward a canonical model for the moduli space of curves"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.