COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Stephen Miller (Yale)
"The spectrum and cohomology of the modular group" - 5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Lectures on the Mathematics of Finance: (I. Karatzas, J. Cvitanic)
Prof. H. Konno (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
"Modified Carleton-Cooper's Method for Estimating the Term Structure of Interest Rates" - 2:00-4:00 p.m., 412 Pupin

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the Applied Mathematics Division, Applied Physics Department and the Department of Mathematics
Gang Tian (MIT and IAS)
"Yang-Mills and calibrated geometry" - 4:30 p.m., 312 Math.

Lectures on the Mathematics of Finance: (I. Karatzas, J. Cvitanic)
Prof. H. Konno (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
"An Internationally Diversified Portfolio Optimization Model Using Stock-Bond-Currency Integrated Approach"
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Working Seminar - Trees and Related Topics: (N. Benakli, Y. Glasner, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Hirotaka Fujimoto (Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
"Uniqueness and finiteness theorems of meromorphic maps into P^n (C^n)" - 10:30 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
S. Kusuoka (Univ. of Tokyo)
"Precise Estimate for large deviation of Donsker Varadhan type: Hilbert-Schmidt Bilinear Potential" - 11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman)
Mark Gross (Cornell and Univ. of Warwick)
"Mirror Symmetry and Special Lagrangian Fibrations I" - 1:00 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Graham A. Niblo (Southampton}
"The geometry and combinatorics of CAT(0) cube complexes" - 1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Junjiro Noguchi (Tokyo, Japan)
Kobayashi conjecture and a Diophantine problem" - 2:00 p.m., 417 Math.

Working Seminar-Syzygies and Geometry: (D. Bayer, H. Pinkham, S. Popescu)
Mark Gross (Cornell and Univ. of Warwick)
"Mirror Symmetry and Special Lagrangian Fibrations II" - 3:00 p.m., 507 Math.