COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Jay Jorgenson (City College, CUNY)
"Bounds on special values of Selberg's zeta function"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (D. Goldfeld, S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00 - 2:30 p.m., 307 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures: (D. Goldfeld)
John H. Coates (University of Cambridge)
"Euler characteristics of p-adic lie groups and Iwasawa theory"
4:00-5:15 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas, T. Hayashi, L. Jensen)
Michael Steele (Statistics, Wharton)
"The Bohnenblust-Spitzer Algorithm and it's applications"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, A. Champanerkar)
Saul Schleimer (UC Berkeley)
"Almost Normal Heegaard Splittings"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, A. Champanerkar)
Peter Scott (Ann Arbor)
"Canonical splittings of groups and 3-manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Strings and Cosmology: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Edward A. (Ted) Baltz (Physics, Columbia)
"Informal discussion on dark matter density "cusps" and spikes" at the centers of galactic halos"
2:00 p.m., 1402 Pupin Hall.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Greg Smith (UC Berkeley)
"Sheaves on toric varieties"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.