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

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 26,
2005
 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Physics Colloquium:
NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Lenny Ng (Stanford University)

"Legendrian knot theory"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Steven Shipman (Louisiana State)
"Study of open linear systems via their closed extensions"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Lenny Ng (Stanford University)
"
Legendrian knots and topology
"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math.,
Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Gauge Theory: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Lenny Ng (Stanford University)
"Knot invariants from contact homology"
(NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION) 4:00 p.m., 622 Math

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, Sean Paul)
Robert McCann ( Univ. of Toronto)
"Sharp decay rates and next asymptotics for fast nonlinear diffusion"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Dan Goldston (San Jose State)
"
Primes in tuples"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Peter Imkeller (Humboldt, University of Berlin)

"Levy noise induced transitions"
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)
Mikami Hirasawa (Gakushuin University, Tokyo and Columbia)
"
Studies of fibred knots"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

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