COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10, 2003


MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 10

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
Maxim Perelstein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Title: TBA

NOTE TIME: 1:00 p.m.,
831
PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
William Bialek (Princeton)
"Pushing the physical limits: optimization in neural coding and computation"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Special Seminar: (R. Friedman)
Ju-Lee Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago)

"Types and Plancherel formulas of p-adic groups"
4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Gennady Spivak (Goldman Sachs)

"
Exotic Derivatives"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos, P. Ozsváth)
Haruzo Hida  (UCLA)

"The integral basis problem of Eichler"

4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry I: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
10:00-11:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry II: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00-4:00 p.m., 405 Math.

Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Haruzo Hida
"L-invariants of Galois representations"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION:
 4:00 p.m., 405 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Claude LeBrun (SUNY Stony Brook)
"
Zoll manifolds and holomorphic disks"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Ali Hirsa (Morgan Stanley)

"Forward equations vs. Backward equations for option pricing
"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Elizabeth Finkelstein
"
Quasi-Fuchsian surfaces in hyperbolic knot complements"
10:45 a.m., 405 Math.

Probability: (T. Hayashi)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.


DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Murray Elder  (Tufts)

"Minimal almost convexity and Baumslag-Solitar groups"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Hiranya Peiris (Princeton)
"An informal discussion of the MAP results"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Zeta Functions and Eisenstein Series: (
H. Jacquet)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:30-5:00 p.m., 528 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Justin Sawon (Stony Brook)
"
Twisted Fourier-Mukai transforms for holomorphic symplectic manifolds"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.

 

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