Columbia Graduate Student SeminarThe seminar takes place at 4:15pm on Tuesdays in room 622 of Columbia University's Mathematics building. The lectures are primarily given by Columbia graduate students and are aimed at a general audience on the level of first and second year graduate students. Priority for speaking is given to first and second year graduate students, but all graduate students are invited to speak.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
Lecture by Danny Gillam:
Decompositions and Invariant Measures.
This lecture will be open to all.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
Lecture by Joe Ross:
The Chow form of a variety.
This lecture will be open to all.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 12:00pm in Math 622.
Lecture by John Baldwin:
Applications of Morse Theory.
This lecture will be open to all.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
Lecture by Danny Gillam:
Lie Groups Acting on Manifolds.
This lecture will be open to all.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
Lecture by Ming-Lun Hsieh:
Torus over finite field and mass formula.
This lecture will be open to all.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005.
Due to time conflicts, there is no seminar this week.
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
TBA
Tuesday, November 8, 2005.
Academic holiday.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
Lecture by Alex Kontorovich.
The Prime Number Theorem on the Nose.
This lecture will be open to all.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
TBA
Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 622.
Lecture by Lior Silberman.
Finding Arithmetic Flavor in Quantum Chaos.
This lecture will be open to all.
There will not be any more meetings this semester.
Monday, February 8, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Boris Mezhericher:
Integer Factorization Algorithms.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, February 14, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Danny Gillam:
The model-theoretic proof of the nullstellensatz.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Matt DeLand:
Meromorphic Functions on Riemann Surfaces and the Weierstrass Gap Theorem.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, February 28, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Danny Gillam:
Every injective polynomial function f:Cn -> Cn is surjective.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, March 7, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Alex Kontorovich:
On Gauss's class number problem and Columbia's faculty.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, March 14, 2005.
Spring break.
Monday, March 21, 2005.
No meeting this week.
Monday, March 28, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Alex Kontorovich:
On the work of Goldfeld and Gross-Zagier.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, April 4, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Danny Gillam:
Zariski Geometries.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, April 11, 2005.
No meeting this week.
Monday, April 18, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Sonja Mapes:
Using pictures to compute things about monomial ideals.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, April 25, 2005 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Matt DeLand:
Group Actions and Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces.
This lecture will be open to all.
There will not be any more meetings this semester.
Monday, October 4, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Alex Kontorovich:
Poisson Summation and Benford's Law: Applications from the 3x+1 Problem to
L-Functions.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, October 11, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Xander Faber:
Kakeya sets in the finite plane.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, October 18, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Ming-Lun (Eric) Hsieh:
Galois group as fundamental group.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, October 25, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by John Baldwin:
Homotopy Groups, Thom Spaces, and the Oriented Cobordism Ring.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, November 1, 2004.
Academic holiday.
Monday, November 8, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Dave Swinarski:
Riemann surfaces as branched coverings.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, November 15, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Joe Ross:
Fixed Point Theorems in Mathematical Economics.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, November 22, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Daniel Krasner:
Coxeter Functors and Gabriel's Theorem.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, November 29, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Dan Boylan:
Banach-Tarski Paradox.
This lecture will be open to all.
Monday, December 6.
Due to time conflicts, there is no seminar this week.
The seminar has been rescheduled for next Monday, December 13.
Monday, December 13, 2004 at 4:15 in Math 528.
Lecture by Xander Faber
An introduction to Hausdorff dimension and a collection of applications of measure zero.
This lecture will be open to all.
There will not be any more meetings this semester.
Friday, February 6, 2004 at Noon in Math 417.
Inaugural Lecture by Xander Faber:
Holomorphic
Dynamics on Riemann Surfaces (or How to Draw Pretty Pictures).
This lecture will be open only to graduate and undergraduate
students.
Friday, February 13, 2004 at Noon in Math 417.
Lecture by Mr. Danny Gillam:
Voting
Systems and Arrow's Theorem.
This lecture will be open only to graduate and undergraduate
students.
Friday, February 20, 2004 at Noon in Math 417.
Lecture by Mr. Dave Swinarski:
Introduction to
Moduli Theory.
This lecture will be open to all.
Friday, February 27, 2004.
Due to scheduling problems, the seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, March 5, 2004.
The seminar will not be held this week. Instead, attend the Columbia/Stony
Brook Junior Algebraic Geometry Seminar. Details are posted on the
seminar's home page.
Lectures by Johan Martens (Columbia):
A Friendly Introduction to Hyper-kaehler Geometry
and Justin Sawon (Stony Brook):
the lecture title has not yet been announced.
Friday, March 12, 2004.
Spring break.
Friday, March 19, 2004.
Spring break.
Friday, March 26, 2004 at Noon in Math 417.
Lecture by Mr. Ming-Lun (Eric) Hsieh:
L-functions and Dirichlet's Theorem.
This lecture will be open to all.
Friday, April 2, 2004 at Noon in Math 417.
Lecture by Mr. Matt Hughes:
Geometric Inversion.
This lecture will be open to all.
Friday, April 9, 2004 at Noon in Math 417.
Lecture by Mr. Boris Mezhericher:
Origami Constructions.
This lecture will be open to all.
Friday, April 16, 2004 at Noon in Math 417.
Lecture by Mr. Danny Gillam:
Can Q be the Fundamental Group of a "Reasonable" Space?
This lecture will be open only to graduate and undergraduate
students.
There will not be any more meetings this semester.
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