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

WEEK OF APRIL 16,  2007

 

MONDAY, APRIL 16

Physics Colloquium:
Saul Teukolsky  (Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics Chair, Physics, Cornel)
"Black holes and gravitational waves"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (A. Sobel)
Michael Tippett (Columbia University/IRI)
"Measuring predictability with singular vectors"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

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

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

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

SPECIAL Number Theory :  (S.W. Zhang)
Serge Cantant (Rennes, France)
"
Dynamics and Diophantine geometry on K3 surfaces"
4:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Chiung-Nan Tsai & Tung To
TITLE: TBA

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
)
Wei Zhang
"Special cycles on Shimura varieties"
Columbia, 312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.


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

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Eric Urban
"Stabilization and endoscopy III"

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


Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Chris Burdzy (University of Washington)

"A particle representation for the heat equation solution"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Genevieve Walsh (Tufts)
"Commensurability classes of 2-bridge knots"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Carlos Simpson  (Université de Nice)
"
Local systems on Deligne-Mumford stacks"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
William Linch (Stony Brook)

"Covariant N=2 heterotic string in 4 dimensions"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Joel Fish  (NYU)
"Think global, act local - a new approach to Gromov compactness for pseudo-holomorphic curves "
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

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.

Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lectures
Gregory F. Lawler (Chicago)
"Conformal invariance and two-dimensional statistical physics"
4:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.