COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13, 2006

 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13

Physics Colloquium:
Israel Bar Joseph (Weizmann Institute)
 “Electrical conductance of a single conjugated molecule”
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

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.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Ambrus Pal (IHES)
"K_2 of elliptic surfaces and the rigid analytic regulator"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
 Zhou Zhang (M.I.T.)
"The Kahler Ricci flow on projective manifolds of general type"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Sinnou David (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
"On two questions of Lang"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level:
One floor down from lobby.

 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, FEBRUARY 17

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
 Anja Sturm (University of Delaware)
"Spatial coalescent processes with multiple mergers"
11:00 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 305.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 10th floor, Statistics Lounge.

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Yoav Moriah (Technion)
"Twisted torus knots and distance one Heegaard splittings"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Joan Birman
 "Markov's theorem without stabilization"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
 Matthew Hedden (Princeton)
"Knot Floer homology of Whitehead doubles"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
 Allen Knutson
"Limits of varieties: subschemes vs. branchvarieties"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.