COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF MARCH 8, 2004

 MONDAY, MARCH 8


Special Seminar: (E. Urban)
Guido Kings (Universität Regensburg)
"On non commutative twisting in motivic cohomology"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Wonyong Lee Retirement Symposium

TUESDAY, MARCH 9

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Tony F. Chan (UCLA)
"Geometry, PDEs, CFD and image processing"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Robert Bryant (Duke & Columbia)
Exterior differential systems in geometry
"Prescribed curvature equations"
PLEASE NOTE NEW DAY: 2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Albert Shiryaev (Moscow State University & Steklov Mathematics Institute)
 "Recent results on the ``Ito formula'' with application to the option pricing on finite intervals"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH 10

Special Seminar: (E. Urban)
Guido Kings (Universität Regensburg)
"Heat kernels and topological polylogarithms"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 11

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
 Jeff Viaclovsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 "Moduli spaces of critical Riemannian metrics in dimension four"
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)
Herve Jacquet
"A fundamental lemma for Kloosterman sums"
 NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:30 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.,
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Albert Shiryaev (Moscow State University & Steklov Mathematics Institute)
"Survey lecture on the general theory of optimal stopping (martingale and Markov settings, discrete and continuous time) Panorama of applications to the stochastic calculus (maximal inequalities), mathematical statistics (sequential analysis), financial mathematics (option pricing)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

Probability: (J. Vecer)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 Effie Kalfagianni  (Michigan)
"Finite type knot invariants and Dehn surgery"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Robert McNees (U. Michigan)
"Holography, diffeomorphisms, and scaling violations in the CMB"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.