COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 1,
2004

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
ACADEMIC HOLIDAY

Physics Colloquium:
ACADEMIC HOLIDAY

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau (Columbia & Harvard)
"Nonlinear equations in string theory and general relativity"
2:40 p.m-3:55 p.m., 203 Math

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Xiaofeng Sun (Harvard)
"Canonical metrics on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces"

4:30 p.m., 507 Math
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Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Catherine O'Neil (Ohio State)
"Explicit descent on elliptic curves"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Probability: (P. Bank)
Northeast Probability Seminar

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
John Etnyre (UPENN)
"Achiral Lefschetz fibrations of 4-manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.


Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Jacob Rasmussen (Princeton/IAS)
"Khovanov homology and embedded surfaces"
2:40 p.m., 507 Math.