MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Physics Colloquium:
Ian Shipsey (Purdue)
"Bringing
hearing to the deaf Cochlear implants: a technical and personal account"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C.
Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
TUES
DAY, FEBRUARY 5
Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (G.
Bal)
Cyrill Muratov
(New Jersey Institute of Technology)
"Self-induced
stochastic resonance: How new non-random behaviors can arise from the
action of noise"
2:45 p.m.,
214 Mudd
Columbia Discrete Math
Seminar: (D.
Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Joel Spencer
(NYU)
"Propp's
deterministic realization of random walk"
4:00 p.m.,
622 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between
317 Mudd
and
622 Math.
Mathematics
of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Colloquium
: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban,
P.
Daskalopoulos)
Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins)
"Locally
convex hypersurfaces of constant curvature with boundary"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Geometry and Analysis: (Z.
Hou,
N. Sesum)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number
Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
L.
Szpiro,
Y. Tschinkel,
A. Venkatesh,
S. Zhang)
Yiannis Sakellaridis (Tel Aviv University)
"On the
spectrum of spherical varieties over p-adic fields: Towards a `relative'
Langlands program?"
NYU, Courant Institute
13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor at
5:00 p.m.
Mathematics
of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Probability
:
(I.
Karatzas)
Robin
Pemantle (U. Penn)
"Asymptotics of ensembles with multivariate rational generating functions"
11:00 a.m.,
903 SSW Bldg (1255
Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 9th
Floor in the School of Social Work
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m.,
Statistics Departmental Lounge on the 10th
floor of that building.
Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(C.
Manolescu,
D. McDuff,
M.
Khovanov,
P.S.
Ozsváth,
R. Lipshitz)
Jacob Rasmussen
(Princeton)
"Lens
space surgeries and L-space homology spheres"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.
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)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Geometric Topology
: (D.
Thurston)
Hiroshi Matsuda (Hiroshima
University)
Title: TBA
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Algebraic Geometry:
(J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Barbara Fantechi
(SISSA/IAS)
"Riemann-Roch theorem for virtually
smooth schemes"
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.