COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

Week of January 26, 1998

 FRIDAY, January 30

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Costis Skiadas (Northwestern)
"Optimal consumption/porfolio selection with stochastic differential utility"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Valeriu Pinciu (SUNY, Buffalo)
"Embeddings of essential surfaces in link complements
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Working Seminar-Syzygies and Geometry: (D. Bayer, H. Pinkham, S. Popescu)
Sorin Popescu
"Mumford-Castelnuovo regularity: Classical results and open problems. Part I"
3:00 p.m., 507 Math.