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

WEEK OF JANUARY 29,  2007

MONDAY, JANUARY 29

Physics Colloquium:
Michael Peskin (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford)
"Observing dark matter and it's heavy partners at the CERN large Hadron collider"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Please see website for details
http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Wilmer Henao (ING Investment Management)
TITLE: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31

Colloquium: ( M. Khovanov and E. Urban)
Mark Kisin  (Chicago)
"The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture and modular forms"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY  1

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Please see website for details
http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

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

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Jean-Michel Bismut (Univ. Paris-Sud)
"The hypoelliptic Laplacian and applications"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU - Number Theory (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
(D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S.W. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
Mark Kisin  (Chicago)
"Integral models of some Shimura varieties"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Robert Fernholz (Intech)
"Stochastic portfolio theory and applications"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Please see website for details
http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Chris Skinner (Princeton)
"A review of Shimura varieties and their cohomology I"
10:00 a.m.-11:30am., 417 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Pieter Allaart (University of North Texas)
"Prophet inequalities"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Rich Schwartz
"Unbounded orbits for outer billiards"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Richard Thomas (Imperial College)
"Moduli of orbifolds, weighted projective embeddings and constant
     Scalar curvature Kahler metrics"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Robert Karp (Rutgers)
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Swatee Naik (University of Nevada, Reno)
"Order in the concordance group"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.