COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF DECEMBER 10,  2007

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10

Physics Colloquium:
No Colloquium (Pupin Town Meeting- "New Building" )

Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
 Jinchao Xu (Penn)
"Optimized discretization and iterative methods for partial differential equations"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,  L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang)
Sebastiaan Johan Edixhoven (Mathematisches Instituut Universiteit Leiden Nederland)
"Computational aspects of coefficients of modular forms"
Columbia University,  312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.
Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
 David Vogan (MIT)
"Geometry and representations of reductive groups"
4:00 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:15 p.m., 508 Math.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14

Probability-DOUBLE HEADER I: (I. Karatzas)
Huyen Pham (University of Paris VI)
"Impulse control problem on finite horizon with execution delay"
10:00-10:55 a.m., 520 Math

 Probability-DOUBLE HEADER II: (I. Karatzas)
Birgit Rudloff (Princeton)
"A Generalized Neyman-Pearson Lemma, and its connections with Hedging in Incomplete Markets"
11:05-12 Noon, 520 Math

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
 David Vogan (MIT)
"Geometry and representations of reductive groups"
4:00 p.m., 203 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:15 p.m., 508 Math.