COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF DECEMBER 11,  2006

 

MONDAY, DECEMBER 11

Physics Colloquium:
Kate Scholberg (Duke)
"Neutrinos from the sky and through the earth"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
 L. Mahadevan (Harvard)
 "Extreme elastohydrodynamics - of flags, fishes, flying carpets and flytraps"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Informal Algebraic Geometry:
Marco Aldi (Northwestern)
"Equations of Abelian varieties via mirror symmetry"
3:00 p.m.., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
"Counting curves on algebraic threefolds"
 Held Lecture Hall
304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College
117 St. & Broadway
 4:30 p.m.-Lecture begins
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 5th floor Corridor NORTH
Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Gunter Harder (Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik, Germany  & IAS)
Title: TBA
 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, DECEMBER 15

Probability: (P. Bank)
Erhan Bayraktar (Michigan)
"Quickest detection for a poisson process with a phase-type change-time distribution"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
 Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr)
"Legendrian torus links"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Graeme Segal (All Souls' College, Oxford & Columbia)
"The Mathematical Structure of Quantum Field Theories"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE: 3:00 p.m., 207 Math.
Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
 "Counting curves on algebraic threefolds"
 Held Lecture Hall
304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College
117 St. & Broadway
 4:30 p.m.-Lecture begins
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 5th floor Corridor NORTH