COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF MAY 5,  2008

 

MONDAY, MAY 5

Physics Colloquium:
Felix Aharonian (Max Planck Institute)
"
Probing Extreme Cosmic Accelerators with high energy gamma-rays and neutrinos
"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, MAY 6

Special Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
Stavros Garoufalidis
 (GATECH)
"
Gevrey asymptotics of the perturbative U(N)-invariants of closed 3-manifolds"
NOTE DAY AND TIME: 11:00 a.m., Location:
520 Math.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
David Gabai (Princeton)

"
Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
"
4:00 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:15 p.m., 508 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7

Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
Marc Culler (UIC)
"Quantitative connections between hyperbolic volume and topological complexity"
NOTE DAY AND TIME: 2:00 p.m., Location:
520 Math.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
David Gabai (Princeton)
"Heegaard Splittings of 3-Manifolds"
4:00 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:15 p.m., 508 Math.

FRIDAY, MAY 9


Probability
: (I. Karatzas)
Jerzy Zabczyk (Warsaw)
"SPDE formulation of interest-rate models with Levy noise"
11:00 a.m., 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 9th Floor in the School of Social Work
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., Statistics Departmental Lounge on the 10th floor of that building.

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)

C. J. Mozzochi (Princeton, NJ)
"A comparison between the Selberg and the Bruggeman-Kuznetsov trace formulas"
11:00 a.m., 203 Math.