COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - NOVEMBER 4, 2002

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Academic Holiday - No Classes

Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Physics Colloquium:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Election Day - University Holiday - No Classes

Yum-Tong Siu  (Harvard & Columbia)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.. 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos, P. Ozsváth)
John Ball
(Oxford University/IAS)
"The Euler-Lagrange Equation and Minimizers in Elastostatics"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Chris Leininger
"On the curve complex"
1:00 p.m., 5405 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Samuel Grushevsky (Princeton)
"
The effective algebraic Schottky problem"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
10:30-12:00 p.m., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Hiroshi Matsuda (University of Tokyo)
"Closed incompressible surfaces"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Daniel Ocone (Rutgers)
"PAC (Probably approximately correct) learning with side information"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
John Luecke  (UT Austin)
Title: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Jose Blanco-Pillado (Cambridge)
"The colliding bubble Braneworld universe"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
George Daskalopoulos (Brown)
"
On the Yang-Mills flow in higher dimensions
"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.

 

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