COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S  -  WEEK OF DECEMBER 13, 2004

This will be the last week for seminars. We may have a couple of informal talks which will be announced to members of our email list. Spring 2005 and our new season of seminars begins Tuesday, January 18, 2005. Announcements of next years seminars will be sent out accordingly.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13

Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Ciprian Manolescu (Princeton/IAS)
"Symplectic Floer theories, Hilbert schemes, and the Jones polynomial"
NOTE: DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 4:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Timothy Halpin-Healy (Barnard College)
"The dynamics of conformity & dissent"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL. 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Armand Brumer (Fordham)
"
l-division fields and conductors of Abelian varieties"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17

Probability: (P. Bank)
Jean-Pierre Fouque (North Carolina State)
"A perturbation approach to hedging under stochastic volatility"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Philip Ording
"Double torus knots"
11:00 a.m
., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Colin Adams (Williams College)
"
Totally geodesic Seifert surfaces in hyperbolic knot and link complements"
1:15 p.m
., 507 Math.