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

WEEK OF APRIL 10, 2006

 

MONDAY, APRIL 10

Physics Colloquium:
Leo Kouwenhoven (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft)

"Spin qubits with quantum dots"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Special Lecture:
Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook, SUNY)
"Homotopy properties of symplectomorphism groups"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

TUESDAY, APRIL 11

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Terry Lyons (Oxford)
"Differential equations driven by rough paths"
10:35-11:50 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 1025.
Terry Lyons will give a series of six lectures on:
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from April 4 through 14.


Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Tapio Schneider (California Institute of Technology)
"
The general circulation of the atmosphere: Macroturbulence and Hadley circulation dynamics"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Darren Clipston (Drake Management)
"A taxonomy of relative value investment strategies"

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 13

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Terry Lyons (Oxford)
"Differential equations driven by rough paths"
10:35-11:50 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 1025.
Terry Lyons will give a series of six lectures on:
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from April 4 through 14.


Special Number Theory:
Michael Harris (
Jussieu)
"Calabi-Yau varieties, potential modularity, and symmetric power L-functions"

4:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
Maria Calle (Courant)
"Ancient solutions for the mean curvature flow"

4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. SarnakL. Szpiro)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK- HOLIDAY


Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
SPEAKER: TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Terry Lyons (Oxford)
"Differential equations driven by rough paths"
11:00 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 305.

Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m.,
10th floor, Statistics Lounge.
Terry Lyons will give a series of six lectures on:
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from April 4 through 14.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Ken Baker (University of Georgia, Athens)
"
Genus one fibered knots and three string braids"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Tim Cochran (Rice)
"
Group theoretic invariants of homology equivalence and homology Cobordism"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Brian Osserman
(UC, Berkeley)
"Beyond Schlessinger: deformation stacks"

2:30 p.m., 520 Math.