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

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 13,
2004

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau (Columbia & Harvard)
"Nonlinear equations in string theory and general relativity"
2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m., 203 Math

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Amy Novick-Cohen (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
"
A coupled degenerate system of Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard equations
"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

Probability: (P. Bank)
Larry Shepp (Rutgers)
"Mathematical economics and finance"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

DOUBLEHEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Chris Leininger
"
Small curvature surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLEHEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Heather Dye (West Point)
"
Virtual Link Diagrams and the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev Invariant"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.