COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 29, 2003

 

 

 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Physics Colloquium:
Sean Carrol (Chicago)
"Dark energy and the preposterous universe"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Eric Urban (Columbia)
"On the main Iwasawa conjecture for GL(2)"
Columbia University, 520 Math. Bldg., 5:30-7:30 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

 Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Sergei Gukov (Harvard)
"Quantum Geometry of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
 SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
 Matthew Szczesny (Pennsylvania)
"Orbifolds and the chiral de Rham complex"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.