COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - DECEMBER 2, 2002

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: TBA
2:10 p.m., 831 PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
David Awschalom (UC Santa Barbara)
"Manipulating quantum information with semiconductor spintronics"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

Number Theory: (R. Pries , D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Ye Tian
"Euler systems of CM points on Shimura curves"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3

Colloquium in Applied Mathematics: (C. Wiggins)
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Jonathan Mattingly (IAS/Duke)
"Stochastically forced Navier Stokes: Ergodicity, mixing and scales"
2:45 p.m., room 214 S.W. Mudd building

Special: Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Huai-Dong Cao (UCLA)
Title: TBA
NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 3:00 p.m., 405 Math

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard & Columbia)
"Multiplier Ideal Sheaves in Algebraic and Complex Geometry"
4:15- 5:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4

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

Special Lecture: (R. Friedman)
Robert Griess (University of Michigan)
"Existence and uniqueness for lattices and groups"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Special: Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers)
"F-structures and semi-rigidity of non-positively curved metrics"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 3:00 p.m., 405 Math

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5

ADDITIONAL: Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard & Columbia)
"Multiplier Ideal Sheaves in Algebraic and Complex Geometry"
4:15- 5:15 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6

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)
John Etnyre (University of Pennsylvania)
"Structure theorems for Legendrian knots in dimension three"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (T. Hayashi)
Michael Marcus (City College of New York)
"Continuity of infinitely processes: a Poisson point process approach"
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)
CANCELLED

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
John Etnyre (Pennsylvania)
"Legendrian knots in dimensions above three"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.

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