COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Rachel Pries (U. Penn.)
"Deformation of wildly ramified covers of curves"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00 p.m., 405 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Mark Gross (Warwick)
"Topological mirror symmetry"
NOTE CHANGE OF DATE, TIME & PLACE: 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometry and Analysis I: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong, I. Krichever)
Gang Tian (MIT & Princeton)
"Symplectic surfaces in 4-manifolds"
4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene, F. Denef)
Dan Kabat (Physics, Columbia)
"Gaussian matrices and black holes - part II"
10:30 a.m., 618 Pupin

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Gopinath Kallianpur (Statistics, Chapel Hill)
TITLE: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea and Coffee will be served before the seminar at 10:30 am, Room 621 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, T. Brendle)
Morwen Thistlethwaite (Tennessee, Knoxville)
"Hyperbolic structures on alternating link complements"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.