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

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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2, 2009

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2

Physics Colloquium:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
Triet Le (Yale)
"Extracting local information in images"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Paul Seymour (Princeton)
"Packing seagulls"
5:30 p.m., 303 Mudd.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov
"Dynamic leverage"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
Jie Qing (UC Santa Cruz)
"A positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds with corners"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
RTG  Seminar: 4:00-4:45
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Abhinav Kumar (MIT)
"K3 surfaces, Shioda-Inose structures, and real multiplication"
5:30-7:00 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C415. C-level: one floor down from lobby.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Jonathan Schachter (IFS State Street)
"Topics in Risk"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
“Random surfaces and algebraic curve"
9:30 a.m., 520 Math.

Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Fibered knots and the Bennequin bound"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Guillaume Bal (Columbia AP&AM)
"Some convergence results in equations with random coefficients"
12:00 noon, 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)
"Duality exact sequences in contact homology"
1:10 p.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Matt DeLand
"Cubic hypersurfaces are rationally simply connected"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
3:30-5:00 p.m., 520 Math.