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.