COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17, 2003

 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Physics Colloquium:
Michael Witherell (Fermilab)
"The next discoveries in particle physics"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Tom Ilmanen (ETH Zürich & Columbia)
"Mean curvature flow"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math. 

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
Dan Knopf (Iowa)
"Anatomy of a Ricci flow neckpinch"
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)
William Stein (Harvard)
"Visualizing Mordell-Weil groups
"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, fourth floor, 5:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
on the fourth floorMath Lounge at 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
CUNI Northeast Probability Seminar (No Seminar at Columbia).

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Igor Mineyev  (UIUC, IAS)
"
Geodesic flows on hyperbolic spaces"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME:  11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Tomislav Prokopec (University of Heidelberg)
"Production of Massless Fermion in Inflation"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

J
oint COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Differential Geometry: (J. Cheeger, D.H. Phong, G. Tian)

Richard Hamilton (Columbia)
"The Ricci flow I"
Courant, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Richard Hamilton (Columbia)
"The Ricci flow II"
Courant, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

TRIPLE HEADER: Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
2:00 Ravi Vakil (Stanford)
"A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule"
3:30 William Fulton (Michigan) "Equivariant cohomology and degeneracy loci"
5:00
Robert MacPherson (IAS) TITLE: TBA
All seminars will take place in room 417 Math.