COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 7, 2005

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
ACADEMIC HOLIDAY - STUDY DAY
 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY - ELECTION DAY


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Ben Chow (UCSD)
 "A few remarks on Ricci flow and Perelman's potentially infinite dimensions"
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)
Joel Bellaiche
 "Geometry of unitary Eigenvarieties and rank of Selmer groups"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Hui Wang (Brown)
"Dynamic importance sampling for queueing networks"
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)
Bruce Kleiner (Michigan and Yale)
"Higher dimensional analogs of Gromov hyperbolicity"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Stephen Bigelow (UCSB)
"Representations of spiders"
 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
 Christopher Douglas (Stanford)
TITLE: TBA
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Alastair Craw (Stony Brook)
"On quivers and tilting bundles on projective toric manifolds"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.