COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics

TENTATIVE - S E M I N A R S

LAST WEEK, THIS WEEK, NEXT WEEK

WEEK OF JANUARY 19, 2009

MONDAY, JANUARY 19

University Holiday
Martin Luther King Day

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20

MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
Sara Biagini (University of Pisa
)
Topics in Portfolio Optimization with General Underlying Assets
"
The market model and absence of arbitrage" - 1 of 5 Lectures
9:30-11:00 a.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work


Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
Dave May (Monash University)
"Numerical modelling of tectonic processes"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd


Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
5:00 p.m., 622 Math or 303 Mudd..
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  21

MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
Sara Biagini (University of Pisa
)
Topics in Portfolio Optimization with General Underlying Assets
"Which set of admissible strategies?
" - 2 of 5 Lectures
9:30-11:00 a.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22

MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
Sara Biagini (University of Pisa)
Topics in Portfolio Optimization with General Underlying Assets
"Utility Maximization (A)
" - 3 of 5 Lectures
9:30-11:00 a.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
Natalie Arkus (Harvard
)
"Extracting Essential Features of Biological Signaling Networks"

NOTE SPECIAL  DAY AND TIME: 4:00 p.m., 214 Mudd


Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
Xi-Nan Ma (USTC)
"
The convexity of level sets for solutions of elliptic partial differential equation"

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)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23

MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
Sara Biagini (University of Pisa
)
Topics in Portfolio Optimization with General Underlying Assets
"
Utility Maximization (B)" - 4 of 5 Lectures
9:30-11:00 a.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
Organizational Meeting.

1:10 p.m., 520 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz
)
Organizational Meeting (Tentative)

1:00 p.m., 520 Math.


Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
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.