COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
 Department of Mathematics
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WEEK OF JANUARY 26, 2009

MONDAY, JANUARY 26

 MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
 Sara Biagini (University of Pisa)
Topics in Portfolio Optimization with General Underlying Assets
"The indifference price as a risk measure" - 5 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

 Physics Colloquium:
 Steven S. Gubser (Princeton)
"String theory: hot or cold?"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27

 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
 Toan Nguyen (Indiana)
 "Multi-dimensional stability of noncharacteristic viscous boundary layers"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

 Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Marty Golumbic (University of Haifa)
"Algorithmic graph theory and its applications"
5:00 p.m., 622 Math
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 28
Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
Assaf Naor (Courant)
"The story of the Sparsest Cut problem"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
 Eli Shlizerman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
 "From order to spatiotemporal chaos in the perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation"
NOTE SPECIAL  DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 11:00 a.m., 210 Mudd - APAM Conference Room

 Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
 NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.``
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 30
Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
FIRST LECTURE!
 Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
“Random surfaces and algebraic curve"
9:30 a.m., 520 Math.

 Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
 NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
 Thierry Bodineau (Ecole Normale Superieure)
"Large deviations for non-equilibrium particle systems"
 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)
Yanki Lekili (MIT)
"Heegaard Floer homology of broken fibrations"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.

 Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 Liang Xiao (MIT)
"Measuring wild ramification and Euler characteristic"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.
Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
 Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
3:30-5:00 p.m., 520 Math.