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

WEEK OF APRIL 30,  2007

 

 

MONDAY, APRIL 30

Physics Colloquium:
Jordi Miralda-Escude, Institut de Cičncies de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC)
"Physics and observational signatures of the first stars and the epoch of reionization"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, MAY 1

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Plamen Stefanov (Purdue)
"
Travel time tomography in anisotropic media"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Student Project Presentations
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
William Sudderth (Minnesota)
Stochastic Dynamic Programming I
A mini course of four lectures

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon,
Tentative Location: Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

THURSDAY, MAY 3

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

SPECIALISCAP Seminar:
Laura Mersini (Chapel Hill)
"A debate in cosmology"
NOTE DAY AND TIME: 12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

SPECIAL: Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
(E. Grinspun & H. Bhat)
Basile Audoly (University of Paris Jussieu/CNRS)
"
Elasticity and geometry of thin rods and plates"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION:
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Interschool Lab, 7th flr, Schapiro/CEPSR


Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Christina Třnnesen-Friedman (Union College)
"Extremal Kahler metrics on projective bundles"
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
)
Lawrence Breen (Universite Paris 13)
"
Non-albelian and partly abelian cohomology"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Talk:  Room C415
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)
Student Project Presentations
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MAY 4

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
No Seminar This Week


Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
William Sudderth (Minnesota)
"Subgame perfect equilibria for n-person stochastic games"

11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Jessica Purcell (Austin)
"Volumes of knots and links"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Northeast String Cosmology Meeting

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
No seminar: Joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at
Stony Brook