COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF OCTOBER 20, 2003

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

Physics Colloquium:
Giacinto Scoles (Princeton/Chemistry)
"Nanomanipulation of biomolecules using and AFM: methods, recent results and possible applications"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

IGERT Joint Program:
Theodore Shepherd (IGERT Distinguished Lecturer; Physics, Toronto)
"Middle atmosphere dynamics, Part 2"
11:45 a.m., 214 Mudd Building

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Tom Ilmanen (ETH Zürich & Columbia)
"Mean curvature flow"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
Lei Ni (University of California, San Diego)
"Some parabolic methods in Kaehler geometry"
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)
Henri Darmon (McGill and Princeton)
"Hida families and rational points on elliptic curves"
Columbia University, 312 Math. Bldg., 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Thaleia Zariphopoulou (Austin, Texas)
"A valuation algorithm for indifference prices in incomplete markets"
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)
Joan Birman
"On transverse knots: transversal simplicity and its failure"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Michael Faux (Hobert and William Smith Colleges/Physics)
"Remnant World Lines, and Shadows of Supersymmetry"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine (Minnesota)
"Gromov-Witten invariants of GIT quotients"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.