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

 WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24, 200
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Physics Colloquium:
Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"
Muon g-2""
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Informal Symplectic Geometry
: (
C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth)
András Stipsicz (Rényi Institute and Columbia)
"
Contact structures on Seifert fibered three-manifolds, Part 3"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25


Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
Jing Li (
Projet Ondes, INRIA-Rocquencourt)
"Fast solver for the heat equation in unbounded domains"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Serguei Norine (Princeton)
"Analogies between graphs and algebraic curves"

4:00 p.m.,  750 Shapiro CEPSR
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Colloquium: ( E. Urban, M-T Wang)
Christophe Breuil (IHES & Columbia)
"On some modulo p local Langlands correspondance"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Fanghua Lin (NYU)
"Optimal partition of the Dirichelet Eigenvalues and its Associated Gradient Flow"
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)
Shou-Wu Zhang
"
Gross-Schoen cycles, relative dualising sheaves, and triple product L-series"
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.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Boris Rozovsky (Brown)

"
A filtering approach to tracking volatility from prices observed at random times"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
No Seminar this Week.


Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
No Seminar this Week.
Group Theory Generations conference at CUNY
CUNY Graduate Center
Rms: 9204/ 9205

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Hsian-Hua Tseng  (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Twisted orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants in genus zero"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.


Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford
& Columbia)
Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds"

3:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.