COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S  -  WEEK OF JANUARY 24, 2005

MONDAY, JANUARY 24

Physics Colloquium:
Bill Zajc (Physics, Columbia)

"Pursuing the perfect primordial fluid"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
S.J. Lin (Princeton/GFDL)
"
The ying and yang of global weather and climate modeling
"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd|

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
Patrick X. Gallagher
"
Some sieves
"
6:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Andre Neves (Stanford)
"The classification of 3-manifolds with Yamabe invariant greater than the one of RP^3
"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)
"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

Probability: (P. Bank)
Ingrid-Mona Zamfirescu (CUNY)
"Strong approximation for mixing sequences with infinite variance"

11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Kasra Rafi (U Conn)
"Lines of minima are quasi-geodesics"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

TRIPLE HEADER I: Algebraic Geometry:  (M. Thaddeus)
Inzet Coskun (MIT)
"Characteristic numbers via degenerations
"
2:00 p.m., 520 Math. 

TRIPLE HEADER II Algebraic Geometry:  (M. Thaddeus)
Anders Buch (Aarhus)
"Quantum cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians
"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.

TRIPLE HEADER III: Algebraic Geometry:  (M. Thaddeus)
Carel Faber (KTH & Johns Hopkins)
"Cohomology of local systems on moduli spaces of curves and of abelian varieties
"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math.