COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 14, 2005

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Physics Colloquium:
Barry Barish (CALTECH)
 "Probing the universe for gravitational waves"
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-continuation"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
Alex Kontorovich
"The prime number theorem on the nose"
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Chris Woodward (Rutgers University)
"Floer field theory"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY; TIME AND LOCATION! 4:00 p.m., 622 Math.

 Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Ernst Kuwert (Brown)
 "Conformally parametrized surfaces with bounds on the Willmore energy"
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)
Thomas Tucker (Rochester)
"Mahler measures, equidistribution, and applications"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Lev Birbrair (Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil)
"Lipschitz geometry of singular surfaces"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Francesco Costantino
"On a shadow approach to the volume conjecture"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Special Lecture: (M. Kuranishi, H. Goldschmidt)
Bernard Malgrange (Grenoble I)
"Non-linear differential Galois theory"
2:30 p.m., 528 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
DOUBLE HEADER I:  Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
 David Nualart (Kansas)
"Power variation for some integral long-memory processes"
NOTE TIME: 2:00 p.m.,  NOTE LOCATION: 903 Department of Statistics, School of Social Work Building

DOUBLE HEADER II:  Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Mark Davis (Imperial College, London)
"The range of traded option prices"
NOTE TIME: 3:00 p.m.,  NOTE LOCATION: 903 Department of Statistics, School of Social Work Building
Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Cris Poor (Fordham)
"Linear relations among Fourier coefficients of Siegel modular forms"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 3:30 p.m., 520 Math.