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


WEEK OF MARCH 3, 2008

MONDAY, MARCH 3

Applied Mathematics Colloquium - Center for Computational Learning Systems Lecture: (G. Bal)
 Abdennebi Omrane (University Antilles-Guyane, Laboratoire d'Analyse, Guadeloupe)
"Low-regret control of distributed systems of incomplete data: ill-posed backward heat equation"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Physics Colloquium:
Albert Libchaber (Physics, Rockefeller University)
 "Bacteria response to temperature and oxygen"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, MARCH 4

Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium - Center for Computational Learning Systems Lecture: (C. Wiggins)
 Sanjoy Dasgupta (UCSD)
 "Projection pursuit, Gaussian scale mixtures, and the EM algorithm"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

 Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets" - continued
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

Special Complex Geometry:  (Z. Hou)
Dan Popovici (Sophia University 
"Deformations of compact Kaehler manifolds"
2:30 p.m., 406 Math.
Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban, P. Daskalopoulos)
 Jean-Michel Bismut (Orsay)
Title: TBA
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Yanir Rubenstein (MIT & Princeton) 
"Quantizing harmonic maps into the space of Kahler metrics and Legendre duality of geometric flows"
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)
 Peter Schneider (University of Muenster, Germany)
"Microlocalization of Iwasawa algebras"
Columbia University,  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)
 Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 Daryl Cooper (UCSB)
"Real projective structures and non-standard analysis"
NOTE TIME: 10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Vasileios Maroulas (Chapel Hill)
"Small noise large deviations for infinite dimensional stochastic dynamical systems"
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.

 New York Area Joint Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
1:00 p.m.: Dusa McDuff (Columbia & Stony Brook)
 "Symplectic embeddings of 4-dimensional ellipsoids and Farey numbers"
2:15 p.m.: Ko Honda (U. Southern California)
"Contact structures, Heegaard Floer homology and triangulated categories"
NOTE LOCATION: 520 Math., Columbia University

 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.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 Behrang Noohi  (FSU)
"Group actions on stacks"
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.