COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics
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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 16, 2009

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Physics Colloquium:
Karsten Heeger (Wisconsin)
Title: TBA
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed
"Income Markets"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
Robert McCann (Toronto)
"Extremal doubly stochastic measures and optimal transportation"

5:00 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
Maria-Cristina Caputo (UT Austin)

"
Global regularity for reaction-diffusion systems"

4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
RTG  Seminar: 4:00-4:45
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)

Hee Oh (Brown)
Title: TBA
Columbia University,  312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. Fixed Income Markets (cont)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
Random surfaces and algebraic curve"
9:30 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and Tea will be served at 9:00 a.m. 508 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Amarjit Budhiraja (UNC, Statistics)
"Elliott-Kalton stochastic differential games associated with the infinity Laplacian"

12:00 noon,
903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Joint with Geometric Topology Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz
)
Mikhail Gromov (Courant and IHÉS)
Title: TBA
1:10 p.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Anthony Licata (Stanford)
Title: TBA
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
Dieter Kotschick (Munich and IAS)
Title: TBA
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.

Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
No seminar this week: go to the discrete math seminar instead.

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Satyan Devadoss (Willians College)
Title; TBA

NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 3:45 p.m., 520 Math.

The location of the seminar will usually alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.