COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF MARCH 26,  2007

 

MONDAY, MARCH 26

Physics Colloquium:
Charles M. Falco (College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona - Tucson)
"The science of optics; The history of art"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, MARCH 27

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
 Achi Brandt (Weizmann Institute)
"Multiscale Computation: From Fast Solvers to Systematic "
 Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series
NOTE LOCATION: 2:45 p.m., 633 Mudd

 Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets (concluded)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Anton Kapustin (Caltech)
"N=2 gauge theories, generalized Higgs bundles, and S-duality "
NOTE DAY: 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
No Seminar This Week.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,
 A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Dipendra Prasad  (IAS)
"On the role of local root numbers in harmonic analysis"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

 Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Adam Tashman (Ivy Asset Management)
Modeling Risk in Arbitrage Strategies Using Finite Mixtures.
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
No Seminar This Week.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 Anne Thomas (University of Chicago)
"Lattices acting on polyhedral complexes"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

 Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
 COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY
This year at PRINCETON University
 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~pbank/ProbabilitySeminar/ProbabilityDay3.htm

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Yair Minsky (Yale)
"The asymptotic cone of the mapping class group"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Luc Illusie (Universite Paris-Sud)
"Some applications of Deligne's tubular neighborhoods, after Gabber and Orgogozo"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Carlos Wagner (Argonne)
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
William Fulton (Michigan & Columbia)
“Equivariant cohomology in algebraic geometry"
3:30 p.m., 203 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.