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)
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.