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

MONDAY, JANUARY 15

Physics Colloquium:
No seminar this week.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
Khachik Sargsyan (Michigan)
"Rare events in stochastic systems"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 9:30 a.m., 210 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov
Review of the seminar and seminar projects
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
John Greer (Courant)
"Upper bounds on the coarsening rates of discrete ill-posed nonlinear diffusions"
NOTE DAY TIME AND LOCATION: 9:30 a.m., 210 Mudd

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
No seminar this week.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. SarnakL. Szpiro)
No seminar this week.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
No seminar this week.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Organizational First Meeting
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 10:30 a.m., 417 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
No seminar this week.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
No seminar this week.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
No seminar this week.


ISCAP Seminar:
Fabio Gastaldello (UC, Irvine)
"X-ray bright galaxy groups as cosmological tools"

2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
No seminar this week.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
William Fulton (Michigan
& Columbia)
“Equivariant cohomology in algebraic geometry"
3:30 p.m., 203 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.