COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF April 1, 2002

S E M I N A R S -

WEEK OF April 1, 2002

MONDAY, APRIL 1

Number Theory: (R. Pries, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Joseph Hundley
"Siegel zeros of Eisenstein series on GL(n)"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math. 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3

Symplectic Geometry:  (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
 Gang Tian (MIT & Columbia)
 "Gromov-Witten invariants-Part II"
10:00- 11:30 a.m., 405 Math.

 String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
 Xingang Chen
"Rolling Tachyon" - Author: Ashoke Sen - eprint: hep-th/0203211
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Special: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Sergio Fenley
"Group actions and laminations"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

Advanced Topics in String Theory: (Greene, Porrati)
Massimo Porrati (NYU)
12:30-2;30 p.m., Video-broadcast
From:  NYU, 269 Mercer st. room 602 (videoconference room). To: 908 Pupin.

Duke-Rutgers-Columbia String Theory: (Greene, Schalm)
2:30 p.m., Video-broadcast To: 908 Pupin.

 Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
 SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5

5th Columbia-Jafee Conference on the Mathematics of Finance
 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
C.P.Davis Alumni Auditorium
Morris A. Schapiro Center - Room 412


Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
 Gang Tian (MIT & Columbia)
 Geometry of manifolds with special holonomy
11:00- 12:15 p.m., 417 Math.
 Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math. 

 DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 Katherine Crowley
"Standard spines in 3-manifolds II"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00-2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

 DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 Nathan Broaddus 
"Standard spines in 3-manifolds III"
1:15- 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
String Theory and Cosmology: (Greene, Schalm)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman)
 SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.