Physics
Colloquium:
Max Tegmark (MIT)
"From derision cosmology to precision cosmology"
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)
Joan Birman
"
Markov's theorem without
stabilization II: An overview of the proof"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 28
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, MARCH
1
COLLOQUIUM:
(M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
David Gabai (Princeton)
"Volumes
of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.
THURSDAY, MARCH 2
Geometry/Analysis Seminar:
(S. Paul)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
P. Sarnak,
L. Szpiro)
Kartik Prasanna (UCLA)
"Elliptic
curves, quadratic twists and p-(in)divisibility of L-values"
Columbia, 312
Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
Darren Clipston (Drake Management)
"Perspectives on hedge funds"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
FRIDAY, MARCH 3
Probability: (I.
Karatzas, P. Bank)
Frank Riedel (University
of Bonn)
"On equilibrium prices in continuous time"
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.
Geometric
Topology: (P.J. Lamberson,
K. Kawamuro)
Joan Birman
"Markov's
theorem without stabilization III: Transversal simplicity of transversal knots"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Gauge Theory/Symplectic
geometry: (P.S.
Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Algebraic Geometry:
(R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Raman Parimala
(Emory)
"Existence
of rational points on homogeneous spaces under linear algebraic groups"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.