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

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 27, 2006


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27

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.