COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S  -  WEEK OF MARCH 28,  2005

MONDAY, MARCH 28


Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Alex Kontorovich
"On the work of Goldfeld and Gross-Zagier"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math
.

Physics Colloquium:
Charles Marcus (Harvard)
"Quantum circuits"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29

IGERT Joint Program in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Science
Peter Constantin  
(Chicago)
Coupled with Navier-Stokes:
     The first of three lectures
     On the mathematics behind some physical processes involving fluids
"Transport in reactive fluids"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Alexei Surkov (Deloitte)
"Credit derivatives
"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

Joint Colloquium: Math/Applied Math/IGERT Seminars
IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series (Joint Math/Applied Math/IGERT seminars)
Peter Constantin  
(Chicago)
Coupled with Navier-Stokes:
     The second of three lectures
     On the mathematics behind some physical processes involving fluids
"
Smoluchowski equations"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math., Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31

IGERT Joint Program in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Science
Peter Constantin  
(Chicago)
Coupled with Navier-Stokes:
     The third of three lectures
     On the mathematics behind some physical processes involving fluids
"Singularities and invariants in fluids"
3:00 p.m., 414 Schapiro

COLLOQUIUM: (E. Urban, M.T. Wang)
Luis Caffarelli (U. T. Austin)

Title: TBA
NOTE: DAY, TIME  and LOCATION: 4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Replaced by
COLLOQUIUM - DIRECTLY ABOVE

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Gopal Prasad (University of Michigan)
"Semi-simple lie groups and some transcendental number theory"
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)
Hanse Chung (Risk Capital Partners)
"Credit derivatives
"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 1

Probability: (P. Bank)
Olivier Daviaud (Morgan Stanley)
"Extremes of the Gaussian free field in 2D"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Krishnan Shankar (University of Oklahoma)
"Dehn functions for finitely presented groups"
1:15 p.m.
, 507 Math
.