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

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Special Lecture:
 Toshio Oshima (Tokyo University)
"A classification of completely integrable systems"
3:30 p.m., 528 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Ernst Goebel (President PTB - German NIST)
"Quantum standards in the SI system"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

 Informal Geometry/Topology: (P. Ozsváth)
Organizational Meeting
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
 Dan Ellis (Electrical Engineering, Columbia)
"Extracting information from music audio"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
Joe Ross
"The Chow form of a variety"
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, Sean Paul)
Peter Topping ( Univ. of Warwick)
"New compactness and existence theorems for the Ricci flow"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
 Tze Leung Lai (Stanford)
"Singular stochastic control and a modified Black-Scholes theory incorporating transaction costs"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Radu Laza
"Deformations of singularities and variations of GIT quotients I"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.