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

 WEEK OF FEBRUARY 16, 2004


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Physics Colloquium:
 Steven Girvin (Yale)
"Qubits and cavity QED with electrical circuits"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 near the entrance to the lecture hall on the 4th floor hall,

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

COLLOQUIUM: Applied Mathematics
Mihalis Dafermos (M.I.T.)
"The geometry and analysis of black holes, Price's law, and the strong cosmic censorship conjecture"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Albert Shiryayev (Moscow State University and Steklov Institute)
"The problems of the quickest and most accurate detection in the technical analysis of the financial data"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 18

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Joyce McLaughlin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Interior elastodynamics inverse problems: Creating images of shear wave speed in human tissue"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Josef Teichmann (Technical University of Vienna)
"Flexible complete Models with stochastic volatility generalising Hobson & Roger"
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME, DAY AND LOCATION FOR THIS WEEK ONLY : 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m., 622Math.

 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Robert Bryant (Duke & Columbia)
"Exterior differential systems in geometry"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
 SPEAKER: TBA
Title: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Joseph Bernstein (Tel Aviv)
"Estimates of automorphic functions and representation theory"
 NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.,
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Albert Shiryayev (Moscow State University and Steklov Institute)
"The best stopping of brownian motion without anticipation (as Close as possible to its ultimate maximum)."
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

Baby Graduate Seminar: (S. Welji)
 Dave Swinarski
"Introduction to moduli theory"
12:00 noon, 417 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
William Menasco  (SUNY Buffalo)
Title: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
 Zoltan Haiman (Astronomy, Columbia)
"Cosmology with galaxy clusters"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
 Ezra Getzler (Northwestern)
 "Lie n-groupoids and differential graded Lie algebras"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.