COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

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WEEK OF APRIL 2, 2001

 

MONDAY, APRIL 2

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Marie-France Vigneras (Université de Paris 7 & IAS)
"Schur algebras and representations of p-adic groups"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, APRIL 3

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.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)
"Black holes due to boundary effects"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 3:00 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 6

Probability: (I. Karatzas, T. Hayashi, L. Jensen)
Jean-Pierre Fouque (North Carolina State Univ., Math. Dept.)
"Stochastic volatility & Martingale decomposition"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 11:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar Spring 2001
Special Gauge Theory Day: (Michael Thaddeus)
12:00 Zoltán Szabó (Princeton)
"Holomorphic disks and invariants for three-manifolds and smooth four-manifolds"
2:30
Tomasz Mrowka (MIT)
"On the borderline - a slick method of defining Floer homology"
3:30 Tea in the Mathematics Lounge, room 508.
4:00
Nigel Hitchin (University of Oxford)
"Invariant functionals on differential forms"
All Seminars will be held in room 417 Mathematics.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, A. Champanerkar)
John Crisp (UMPA, France)
"Putting metrics on aspherical 2-complexes"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Strings and Cosmology: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Jonathan Feng (MIT)
"Dark matter and the scale of supersymmetry"
2:00 p.m., 1402, Pupin Hall.

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