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

WEEK OF APRIL 24, 2006

 

MONDAY, APRIL 24

Physics Colloquium:
Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford)
"
Tests for Yukawa-type forces at sub-mm distance"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, APRIL 25


Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)

Anna Gilbert (Michigan)
"
The interplay of analysis and algorithms"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Bernd Scherer (Deutsche Bank)
"Resampling techniques and portfolio construction"

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 27

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
Maria-Cristina Caputo
"
Highly degenerate harmonic mean curvature flow"
3:00 p.m., LOCATION:
417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
Pengfei Guan (McGill)

"A convex principle for nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations"

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)
Spencer Bloch (Chicago)
"Motives associated to Feynman graphs"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
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 28

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
No Seminar this week:
Financial Engineering & Mathematics Meeting:
For Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell and Princeton University

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Thomas Vogel
"
Existence of Engel structures"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
No Seminar this Week.
Conference on Geometry, Topology, and Physics

DOUBLE HEADER I: Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Dror Varolin (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"Non-negativity of Hermitian polynomials"

2:15 p.m., 520 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II:Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Weiping Li
(Hong Kong)
"Construction of stable bundles on some Calabi-Yau 3-fold via variation of polarizations"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.