COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF JANUARY 30, 2006

 

MONDAY, JANUARY 30

Physics Colloquium:
Frithjof Karsch (BNL)
 "Lattice gauge theory and heavy Ion collisions"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Ian Agol (UIC)
"Geometrization and universal covers of closed 3-manifolds"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Marek Rutkowski (UNSW Australia)
"Credit risk"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

SPECIAL Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Marek Rutkowski (University of New South Wales)
"Hedging of credit derivatives in models with totally unexpected default"
11:00 a.m., 528 Math.

 COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Laszlo Erdos (University of Munich, visiting Harvard)
"Mathematical analysis of quantum dynamics with many degrees of freedom"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math.  Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
 Ngaiming Mok (University of Hong Kong)
"Varieties of minimal rational tangents -- A geometric theory on Fano manifolds"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Ian Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Arithmetic reflection groups"
5:30 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.
Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Ye Tian (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
"Rational points on modular Abelian 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)
Tomas.Bjork (HHS Sweden)
"Introduction to interest rate models 1"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Henry McKean (NYU)
"Some aspects of the invariant distribution of a diffusion"
11:00 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 305.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 10th floor, Statistics Lounge.

TRIPLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Martin Scharlemann (UC Santa Barbara)
"Meditation on the Schoenflies conjecture"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

TRIPLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Ian Agol (Illinois, Chicago)
"Lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic Haken 3-manifolds"
 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

TRIPLE HEADER IIl: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Maggie Tomova (Iowa)
"Alternate Heegaard genus bounds distance"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Abhinav Kumar (Harvard)
"K3 surfaces with high Neron-Severi rank"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.