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

WEEK BEGINNING APRIL 30, 2006

SUNDAY, APRIL 30

Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Physics
In honor of John Morgan's 60th Birthday
Schedule
:
The main conference will take place May 1-4, with a special workshop
on gauge theory/four manifolds/Floer homology on April 30th, and another
special workshop on May 5th on hyperbolic geometry.


MONDAY, MAY 1

Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Physics
In honor of John Morgan's 60th Birthday
Schedule
:
The main conference will take place May 1-4, with a special workshop
on gauge theory/four manifolds/Floer homology on April 30th, and another
special workshop on May 5th on hyperbolic geometry.


Physics Colloquium:
Paul Steinhardt (Princeton)
"The endless universe"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, MAY 2

Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Physics
In honor of John Morgan's 60th Birthday
Schedule
:
The main conference will take place May 1-4, with a special workshop
on gauge theory/four manifolds/Floer homology on April 30th, and another
special workshop on May 5th on hyperbolic geometry.


Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (
M. Weinstein)
Deborah Berebichez (Courant Institute & Columbia)
"Time-reversal for temporal compression and spatial focusing of acoustic waves
in enclosures"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3

Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Physics
In honor of John Morgan's 60th Birthday
Schedule
:
The main conference will take place May 1-4, with a special workshop
on gauge theory/four manifolds/Floer homology on April 30th, and another
special workshop on May 5th on hyperbolic geometry.

THURSDAY, MAY 4

Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Physics
In honor of John Morgan's 60th Birthday
Schedule
:
The main conference will take place May 1-4, with a special workshop
on gauge theory/four manifolds/Floer homology on April 30th, and another
special workshop on May 5th on hyperbolic geometry.


Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.


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

DOUBLE HEADER I: Special Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld)
C.J. Mozzochi
"Some applications of the weighted
Bruggeman-Kuznetsov trace formula"
5:00-5:30 p.m., 307 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Special Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld)
X. Li
"The number variance for the modular surface
5:30-6:00 p.m., 307 Math.

FRIDAY, MAY 5

Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Physics
In honor of John Morgan's 60th Birthday
Schedule
:
The main conference will take place May 1-4, with a special workshop
on gauge theory/four manifolds/Floer homology on April 30th, and another
special workshop on May 5th on hyperbolic geometry.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Victor de la Pena (Statistics)
"Self-normalized processes: Recent results"
10:00 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 305.


DOUBLE HEADER II: Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
David Lando (Copenhagen Business School, visiting Princeton)
"Decomposing swap spreads"

11:00 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 305.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Mark Andrea de Cataldo (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"Filtrations on cohomology arising from geometry"
NOTE TIME: 3:30 p.m., 520 Math.