COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - DECEMBER 9, 2002

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
David Lin (University of Southampton)
TITLE: TBA

2:10 p.m., 831
PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
Mark Kasevich (Yale University)

"Atom interferometry"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL, Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Cristian Popescu (John Hopkins)
"1-Motives, Etale Cohomology, and Iwasawa Theory"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10

Colloquium in Applied Mathematics: (C. Wiggins)
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Igor Mezic (UCSB)
"Chaotic advection in three-dimensional flows: geometry and physics
"
2:45 p.m.,  room 214 S.W. Mudd building


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, DECEMBER 11

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

Colloquium in Applied Mathematics: (C. Wiggins)
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Michael Weinstein (Fundamental Mathematics Research Department, Bell Laboratories)
"Resonant energy tansfer in inhomogeneous media"
PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE: 1:45 p.m.,  room 214 S.W. Mudd building


COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos, P. Ozsváth)
George Papanicolaou   (Stanford University)
"Remote sensing and communications in random media"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (R. Friedman)
Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Physics)
"Symmetry Breaking"
4:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

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


Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (T. Hayashi)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Nemanja Kaloper (U.C. Davis)
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)

Dan Abramovich (Boston University)
"
Flips, derived categories and moduli"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 3:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (R. Friedman)
Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Physics)
Title: TBA

4:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

 

 

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