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


WEEK OF JANUARY 21, 2008
 

MONDAY, JANUARY 21

Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observed
University Holiday -
University Closed

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.


Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Doug Borden (Goldman Sachs Algorithmic Trading)
"Algorithmic trading"

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

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Jeremy Marzuola

"Strichartz estimates and local smoothing estimates for asymptotically flat Schrodinger equations"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel A. Venkatesh S. Zhang
)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Youxun Shen (Goldman Sachs Algorithmic Trading)
"Review of quantitative trading"

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

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25

Joint Probability (I. Karatzas) / Geometric Topology (D. Thurston)
Richard Kenyon (Brown)
"
The configuration space of branched polymers"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

ISCAP:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Michael Harris (
Columbia & ) Universite Paris 7)
Arithmetic Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups and Related Galois Representatives"
1:00 p.m., 207 Math.

Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.


Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu,
D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Marko Stosic (IST, Lisbon)
"
sl(N)-link homology using foams and the Kapustin-Li formula"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.


Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Joint Probability (I. Karatzas) / Geometric Topology (D. Thurston)

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
David Swinarski

"GIT stability of weighted pointed curves"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Charles L. Fefferman (
Columbia & Princeton)
Whitney Extension Problems and Interpolation"
3:30-5:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.