COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - In the City of New York

Department of Mathematics - Seminars

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9, 1998

MONDAY, February 9

Number Theory:

(D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)

Nick Katz (Princeton)

"Average ranks of elliptic curves"

5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Applied Mathematics Colloquim:

(C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the Applied Mathematics Division,

Applied Physics Department and the Department of Mathematics

M. Nelkin (Courant, NYU)

"Anomalous scaling in high Reynolds number turbulence"

4:30 p.m., 214 S.W. Mudd

THURSDAY, February 12

Geometry and Analysis:

(M. Kuranishi)

JaredWunsch (Harvard)

"The trace of the harmonic oscillator"

2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Working Seminar - Trees and Related Topics:

(N. Benakli, Y. Glasner, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)

SPEAKER: TBA

"Using JSJ to study the automorphism group of a group" (continued).

6:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, February 13

Probability:

(I. Karatzas)

Predrag R. Jelenkovic (Bell-Labs, Lucent)

"Packing random intervals on-line"

11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:

(R. Friedman)

Zhiqin Lu

"On the variation of Hodge structures of Calabi-Yau three-folds"

1:10 p.m., 405 Math.

Geometric Topology:

(J. Birman, B. Mangum)

Oliver Dasbach (Univ. of Dusseldorf & Columbia)

"A Trip Through the Combinatorics of Vassiliev Knot Invariants, II"

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 III"

3:00 p.m., 507 Math.