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.
SPECIAL:
ISCAP
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