COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF OCTOBER 17, 2005

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17

Physics Colloquium:
Bill Brinkman (Princeton)
 "The Old Bell Labs-Do We Need It Today?"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Mikhail Khovanov
"Introduction to sl(2) link homology-continuation"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18

Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
Ming-Lun Hsieh
"Torus over finite field and mass formula"
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20


Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Lei Ni (UCSD)
 "Entropy and Li-Yau-Hamilton inequality"
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)
 DELIGNE  61st BIRTHDAY FEST AT IAS - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Jaksa Cvitanic (Caltech)
"Principal-Agents problems in continuous-time"
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)
Saul Schleimer (Rutgers)
"The curve complex -- A geometric survey"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
 Robert Lipshitz (Stanford)
"Heegaard-Floer for manifolds with (parameterized) boundary"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Gabriele La Nave (LeHigh)
Title: TBA
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.