COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF OCTOBER 30, 2006

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
 Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona)
Part of the SIAM Lecture Series
"Globalization and disease emergence: Challenges and opportunities"
NOTE: DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 12:00 Noon., 233 Mudd

 Physics Colloquium:
David Shoemaker (MIT)
"Progress toward an astronomy of gravitational waves"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31

Special Probability: (P. Bank)
 Walter Schachermayer (Vienna University of Technology)
A mini course of four lectures on Functional-Analytic Methods in Finance-Part III
3:00 p.m., Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Junior Colloquium:
 Brian Conrad  (Columbia and Michigan)
“Deligne's notes on Nagata compactifications"
11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Special Probability: (P. Bank)
 Walter Schachermayer (Vienna University of Technology)
A mini course of four lectures on Functional-Analytic Methods in Finance-Part IV
3:00 p.m., Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. Sesum,  Z. Hou)
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
"Positivity of quasi-local mass"
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)
Clayton Petsche (CUNY)
"Quantitative equidistribution of small points on elliptic curves"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
No seminar this week.

The  13th Annual CAP Workshop on  Derivative Securities and Risk Management
 Davis Auditorium: 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
 Kasra Rafi (UConn)
"Closed geodesics in the thin part of moduli space"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Jason Starr (Stony Brook)
"Rational simple connectedness and weak approximation"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
No seminar: Joint NY Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Courant

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Graeme Segal (All Souls' College, Oxford & Columbia)
"The Mathematical Stucture of Quantum Field Theories"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.