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

WEEK OF APRIL 9,  2007

 

MONDAY, APRIL 9

Physics Colloquium:
Gerald Gabrielse, Leverett Professor of Physics (Harvard)
"
New measurement of the electron magnetic moment and the fine structure constant "
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, APRIL 10

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
CANCELLED

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
SPEAKER: TBA

TITLE: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 12

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

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Ben Weinkove (Harvard)
"The Calabi-Yau equation and symplectic geometry"

4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,
A. Venkatesh S. Zhang L. Szpiro
)
Sinnou David (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
"Baker theory on group varieties"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Talk:  Room C415
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198.
C-level: one floor down from lobby.


Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
SPEAKER: TBA

TITLE: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Kazuhiro Fujiwara (Nagoya University)
"Algebraic number theory and non-abelian class field theory"

10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 417 Math.


DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Carlo Petronio (University of Pisa)
"Hyperbolic graphs of small complexity"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
No Seminar this week.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Stefan Friedl (Rice)
"Commensurability of 3-manifolds and L2-invariants"

1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Li Li (Stony Brook)
"Wonderful compactification of an arrangement of subvarieties"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Robert Brandenberger (McGill)
"String-gas cosmology and structure formation"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
No seminar: Joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at Courant

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.