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



WEEK OF JANUARY 28, 2008

MONDAY, JANUARY 28

Physics Colloquium:
David Griffiths (Reed)
"Critical Dipoles and Singular Potentials"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29

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)
 Pantelis Troucas (Goldman Sachs Core strategies)
Review
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 Mustafa Korkmaz (METU, Turkey)
"The curve complex on a nonorientable surface"
NOTE DAY AND TIME: 5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
David Gu (Stony Brook)
"Computational conformal geometry, algorithms and applications"
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)
Mikhail Smirnov
Topics for Course Projects
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

 Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
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.

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
 Xiaoqing Li
"Convexity breaking for L-functions on GL(3)"
 11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon., 203 Math.

 Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Pantelis Troucas (Goldman Sachs Core strategies)
Review
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

 Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
-Wed., 01/30-

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 Chenyang Xu (Princeton)
 "Congruence for rational points over finite fields and coniveau over local fields"
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.