COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF DECEMBER 12, 2005

 

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12

Physics Colloquium:
Steve Julian (Toronto)
TITLE: TBA
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Kiran Kedlaya (MIT)
"Bounding Picard numbers of surfaces"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Sasha Stoikov (NYU)
"Pricing options from the point of view of a trader"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Justin Roberts (UC San Diego)
TITLE: TBA
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Marta Asaeada (UC Riverside)
"New skein modules for 3-manifolds and examples"
 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.