COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF OCTOBER 27, 2003

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27

Physics Colloquium:
Natalie Roe (LBL)
"Looking for a New Angle on CP Violation"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

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)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
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)
Matt Baker (Georgia)
"Equidistribution of small points and potential theory"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, fourth floor, 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Ulrich Horst (Humboldt and Princeton)
“A limit theorem for financial markets with inert investors”
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Jason Behrstock (Stony Brook)
"Asymptotic geometry of mapping class groups"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Dick Canary (Michigan)
"Classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Bartomeu Fiol (Weizmann Institute)
"Godel universes, supertubes and holography"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Constantin Teleman (Cambridge)
"Universal index formula for the moduli of G-bundles on a Riemann surface"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.