COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF MARCH 29, 2004

 MONDAY, MARCH 29

Physics Colloquium:
 Mark Trodden (Syracuse University)
 "Connecting the Dark Side and Fundamental Physics"
 4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 near the entrance to the lecture hall on the 4th floor Pupin Hall.

TUESDAY, MARCH 30

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
 Shidong Jiang (Yale)
"Second-kind integral equations for scattering by open surfaces"
2:30-3:30 p.m., 214 Mudd

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 1

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Robert Bryant (Duke & Columbia)
Exterior Differential Systems in Geometry
"Conservation Laws"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Umberto Zannier (Università Udine & Princeton)
"The subspace theorem of Schmidt and some of its applications"
 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)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Vladimir Dobric (Lehigh)
"Natural wavelet expansions of Gaussian processes"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Arlin Crotts (Columbia)
"ALPACA: Columbia's new optical telescope for cosmological surveys"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
 Sebastian Casalaina-Martin
"Singularities of the Prym theta-divisor"
NOTE TIME: 3:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lectures: (S.W. Zhang)
 Michael Harris (Université Paris VII & Columbia)
"Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms"
 4:30 p.m., 312 Math., Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.