COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF DECEMBER 8, 2003

 MONDAY, DECEMBER 8

Physics Colloquium:
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11

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.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Michael J. Hopkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"K-theory and the representations of loop groups"
4:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Nicole El Karoui (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
"Optimal risk transfer under dynamic risk measure"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Adam Sikora  (SUNY Buffalo, IAS)
TITLE: TBA

1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Michael Faux (Hobert and William Smith Colleges)
"
Remnant world lines, and shadows of supersymmetry"
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)

Jeff Cheeger  (Courant)
"Collapsing and non-collapsing"
Columbia,  2:00-3:00 p.m.
Gang Tian (Princeton)
"Extremal Kahler metrics and appliations"
Columbia, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Michael J. Hopkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Modular forms in algebraic topology"
4:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.