COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF April 15, 2002

MONDAY, APRIL 15

Double Header I: Number Theory: (R. Pries, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Lei Yang (MIT)
"Automorphic forms on U(2, 1)"
4:00 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Doulbe Header II: Number Theory: (R. Pries, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Wlad Pribitkin (Haverford & Princeton)
"Generalizations of Eichler integrals"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Rick Klotz (Managing Director and Senior Risk Manager, Greenwich Capital)
"Understanding US fixed income market"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 203 Math.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17

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.

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

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Rahul V. Pandharipande (Caltech & Princeton)
"Gromov-Witten theory and integrable hierarchies"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18

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)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

 Joseph Fels Ritt  Lectures: (R. Friedman)
Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas, Austin & Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics)
"From Solitary Waves to Ubiquitous Symmetry I"
 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)
 Rick Klotz (Managing Director and Senior Risk Manager, Greenwich Capital)
"Understanding US fixed income market"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 203 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Probability: (J. Vecer)
 Jan Hannig (Statistics, Colorado)
"Integrated Brownian motions and Exact $L_2$-small balls"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

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

 Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 Howard Masur (UIC)
 "Large scale geometry of the mapping class group"
1:15- 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
String Theory and Cosmology: (Greene, Schalm)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

 Joseph Fels Ritt  Lectures: (R. Friedman)
Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas, Austin & Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics)
"From Solitary Waves to Ubiquitous Symmetry II"
 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.