COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF May 6, 2002

MONDAY, MAY 6

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Julien Hugonnier (Carnegie Mellon)
"Optimal investment with a random endowment and utility based valuation in incomplete markets"
(Joint work With D. Kramkov)
NOTE SPECIAL DAY & TIME: 4
:10  p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m., 621 Math.

Number Theory: (R. Pries, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Ravi Ramakrishna
(Cornell)
"The conjectures of Serre and Fontaine-Mazur"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math. 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

Symplectic Geometry:  (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
Gang Tian (MIT & Columbia)
Geometry of manifolds with special holonomy

10:00- 11:30 a.m., 405 Math.- LAST SEMINAR FOR THE SEMESTER


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

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Dennis Sullivan  (Stony Brook, CUNY)

"
String theory in the algebraic topology of the free loops space of a manifold
"
NOTE TIME/DAY & LOCATION: 4:00 p.m., 520 Math.
 

THURSDAY, MAY 9

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)
Lihe Wang (IAS)
"
Geometric aspects of Hölder and Lp estimates"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, MAY 10

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
END OF SEMINARS FOR THIS TERM.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
END OF SEMINARS FOR THE SEMESTER

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00-2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

String Theory and Cosmology: (
Greene, Schalm)
SPEAKER: TBA

TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman)
Yuri Tschinkel (UIC & Princeton)
"Rationality of moduli spaces"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.