Columbia University Mathematics Colloquium

Spring 2005

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Columbia Mathematics Department Colloquium meets in Math 520 every three weeks on Wednesday afternoons at 4:15, and is preceded by tea at 3:45. Colloquia are of general mathematical interest and aimed at both faculty and graduate students. Please click on the title for the abstract of the talk.

Jan. 31 (Monday, 4pm in 507 Math)	Mikhail Khovanov-U. C. Davis	Link homology
Feb. 2	Kefeng Liu-U.C.L.A.	Localization and String Duality
Feb. 16	Ching-Li Chai- U. Penn.	Leaves on moduli spaces and Hecke symmetries
Mar. 2	Ravi Ramakrishna-Cornell	Galois Representations and Serre's Conjecture
Mar. 23	Dinakar Ramakrishnan-Caltech	Modular forms and Calabi-Yau varieties
Mar. 30	(Joint Colloquium with Applied Mathematics) Peter Constantin-U. of Chicago	Smoluchowski Equations
Mar. 31 (Thursday, 4:30pm in 507 Math)	Luis Caffarelli-U. of Texas Austin	Random homogenization for non divergence equations
Apr.19 (Tuesday, 2:45pm in 214 Mudd)	(Joint Colloquium with Applied Mathematics) Peter Lax-Courant Institute	Dispersive Systems
Apr. 20	Rahul Pandharipande-Princeton	Relative Gromov-Witten theory
Apr.29 (Friday, 4:30pm in 312 Math	(Combined with the Kolchin Lecture) Curt McMullen-Harvard	Billard

Fall 2004 schedule

Organizer: Eric Urban and Mu-Tao Wang

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