COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF OCTOBER 31, 2005

  

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31

Physics Colloquium:
Angela Olinto (Chicago)
 "The mystery of ultra-high energy cosmic rays"
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)
Ciprian Manolescu
"Introduction to Floer homology"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
William Goldman (University of Maryland)
"3-dimensional affine actions and hyperbolic geometry on 2-manifolds"
5:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Andre Neves (Princeton)
 "Singularities of Lagrangian mean curvature flow"
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)
Ron Livne (Hebrew University, Israel and IAS)
"Examples of Abelian varieties with action by the Hamilton quaternions"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Alexander Cherny (Moscow State University)
"Pricing, optimality, and equilibrium based on coherent risk measures"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Richard Schwartz (Brown)
"100 degrees worth of periodic billiard trajectories"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Jeff Brock (Brown)
"Heegaard splittings, pants decompositions of surfaces, and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Tommaso de Fernex (Utah/IAS)
"Higher cohomology of divisors on a projective variety"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.