COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF APRIL 19,  2004

 MONDAY, APRIL 19

Physics Colloquium:
Amir Yacoby (Weizman Institute of Science)
"Electrons in one dimension - spin-charge separation and localization
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, APRIL 20

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Peter Markowich (Vienna)
"On highly oscillatory PDEs "
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"
Agency mortgage markets"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21

COLLOQUIUM: (P.  Daskalopoulos)
Michael Harris (Université Paris VII & Columbia)
"Survey of p-adic representations of p-adic groups"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 22

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Robert Bryant (Duke
& Columbia)
Exterior Differential Systems in Geometry
"
G2-geometry: submanifolds"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
Steve Zelditch (Johns Hopkins)

"Extremal metrics and critical points of holomorphic sections"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Stephen Kudla (Penn)
"The height pairing of arithmetic theta series"
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)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"Conclusion
"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 23

Probability: (J. Vecer)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Alan Reid  (UT Austin)
"Extensions, retractions and LERF"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.


Morse Theory Reading Group:  (S. Welji)
John Morgan
POST-PONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK


Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Thomas Nevins (Michigan)
"
Hilbert schemes, Fourier transform, and noncommutative geometry"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 2:00 p.m., 417 Math.