COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF March 25, 2002
MONDAY, MARCH 25
Number
Theory: (R.
Pries,
H.
Jacquet,
S.W.
Zhang)
Kiran Kedlaya (Berkeley)
"Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology and the computation of zeta functions"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served
at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.
TUESDAY, MARCH 26
Ellis R. Kolchin
Memorial Lectures: (R. Friedman)
Peter Sarnak (Princeton University)
"Eigen and L-functions on arithmetic surfaces"
4:30 p.m.,
International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street -
Go to the 6th floor- Plaza Entrance -
Dag Hammarskjold Lounge - Tea will be served
at 3:30 p.m., 508 Math.
Mathematics
of Finance Practitioners Seminar:
(M. Smirnov)
Murali Ramaswami (Global Head of Derivatives &
Quantitative Research, Lehman Brothers)
TITLE: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 203 Math.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27
Symplectic Geometry: (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
CANCELLED
String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene,
Kabat)
Mark Jackson (Physics,
Columbia)
"Strings in flat space and PP waves from n=4 Superyang-Mills"
By David Berenstein, Juan Maldacena, Horatiu Nastase:
e-Print Archive: hep-th/0202021
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.
COLLOQUIUM:
(D. Daskalopoulos)
Tatiana Toro (Washington
& Harvard)
"A geometric approach to free Boundary
regularity below the continuous threshold"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28
Advanced Topics in String Theory:
(Greene,
Porrati)
Massimo Porrati
(NYU)
12:30-2;30 p.m., Video-broadcast
From: NYU, 269 Mercer st. room 602 (videoconference room). To: 908 Pupin.
Duke-Rutgers-Columbia String Theory: (Greene,
Schalm)
2:30 p.m., Video-broadcast To: 908 Pupin.
Geometry
and Analysis: (R. Hamilton,
J.
Loftin)
Alice Chang (Princeton)
"A conformally invariant sphere theorem in four dimensions"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Mathematics
of Finance Practitioners Seminar:
(M. Smirnov)
Terry Williams (Morgan Stanley)
"Value at risk methods"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 203 Math.
FRIDAY, MARCH 29
Samuel
Eilenberg Lectures:
Gang Tian
(MIT &
Columbia)
Geometry of manifolds with special holonomy
11:00- 12:15 p.m., 417 Math.
Tea will be served
at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.
Probability:
(J. Vecer)
Ioannis Kontoyannis (Brown)
"Limit theorems and some spectral theory for geometrically ergodic Markov
chains"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621
Math.
Special String Lunch Seminar: (Greene,
Schalm)
Andrew Strominger (Harvard)
"The de Sitter/Conformal field theory correspondence and Inflation"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 12:30 p.m., 908 Pupin.
Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry:
(S.W.
Zhang)
1:00-2:30 p.m., 417 Math.
Geometric Topology: (J. Birman,
W. Neumann,
I. Kofman)
John Hempel (Rice)
"3-manifolds via the complex of curves on a
surface"
1:15- 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Algebraic
Geometry: (R.
Friedman)
Adam Logan (Berkeley)
"Kodaira dimension of moduli
spaces of curves with marked points"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.