COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF OCTOBER 24, 2005

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24

Physics Colloquium:
Nick Bonesteel
 "Nanostructure talk"
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 25

Junior Colloquim: (Y. Maharaj)
Dylan Thurston
"How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?"
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
CANCELLED THIS WEEK.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Neil Trudinger (Australian National University and U. C. Berkeley)
 "Monge Ampere equations and optimal transportation"
5:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27
SPECIAL PROBABILITY SEMINAR
Nicole El Karoui (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
"Max-Plus decomposition of supermartingales, american options, and stochastic orderings"
4:30 p.m., 903 SW Building, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Jian Song (Johns Hopkins)
 "Energy functionals and canonical Kahler metrics"
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)
 Luc Illusie  (Université d'Orsay, Paris)
"Miscellany on traces in I-adic cohomology: A survey"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28

DOUBLE HEADER I:  Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Nizar Touzi (Université Paris I, CREST, and Imperial College, London)
"Second-order backward SDE's and fully nonlinear parabolic equations"
10:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 9:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II:  Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
 Tyrone Duncan (University of Kansas)
"Some stochastic equations with a fractional Brownian motion"
11:15 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 11:00 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Elizabeth Denne (Harvard)
"Alternating quadrisecants of knots"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
 Octav Cornea (Université de Montréal)
"Cluster homology"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Diane Maclagan (Rutgers)
 "Moduli of McKay quiver representations for abelian groups"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.