COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF FEBRUARY 3, 2003


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3

Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Alex Lubotzky (
Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
"Counting congruence subgroups"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
Hooman Davoudiasl (IAS)
"Phenomenology beyond the Randall-Sundrum model"
NOTE TIME: 1:00 p.m., 831 PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
Joe Formaggio (Washington University)
"The year of the neutrino"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Alexei Surkov (Deloitte Touche)

"Credit derivatives"
Michael Stanley (Goldman Sachs)
"Fixed income trading
"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry I: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
10:00-11:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry II: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00-4:00 p.m., 405 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Robert Brandenberger (Brown)
"Embedded defects and a new model of Brane inflation"
NOTE DAY:
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Mu-Tao Wang

"Remarks on a class of solutions to the minimal surface system"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Larry Hite (Hite Capital Management)
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Probability: (T. Hayashi)
Toufic Suidan (CIMS & IAS)
"
Adhesion Dynamics and Brownian Motion"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.


Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Elmas Irmak  (U. Michigan)
"Superinjective Simplicial Maps of Complexes of Curves
    and Injective Homomorphisms of Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Jacob Rasmussen
(Harvard)
"Floer homology and knots"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.

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