COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

Week of April 6, 1998


MONDAY, April 6

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Lucien Szpiro (CRNS)
"Inequalities for the discriminant of an elliptic curve in the additive reduction case" - 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Atle Selberg (IAS-Emeritus)
"Zeros on the critical line of linear combinations of L-functions"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

WEDNESDAY, April 8

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene)
Philip Argyres (Cornell)
"Yang-Mills theory and AdS compactified supergravity" - 11:00 a.m., 705 Pupin

Lectures on the Mathematics of Finance: (I. Karatzas, J. Cvitanic)
Takeaki Kariya (Hitotsubashi Univ., Japan)
"An implementaion of the HJM model with application to Japanese interest futures" - 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
Charles Tresser (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
"Minkowski, renormalization, and digital filters" - 4:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, April 9

Lectures on the Mathematics of Finance: (I. Karatzas, J. Cvitanic)
Takeaki Kariya (Hitotsubashi Univ., Japan)
"Modelling Individual US T-Bond Prices" - 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Chuu-Lian Terng (IAS)
"Non-linear Schroedinger equations on Kaehler manifolds" - 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, April 10

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Takeaki Kariya (Hitotsubashi Univ., Japan)
" A new control variate estimator for an Asian option. (Jointly with Kamiz Ono, K. and Liu,R.)" - 11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman)
Richard Thomas (IAS)
"A holomorphic Casson invariant for Calabi-Yau 3-folds and bundles on K3 fibrations" - 1:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
David Bachman (USCD)
"Boundary Heegaard splittings, singular foliations, and normal surfaces" - 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Hugh Howard (Wake Forest)
"Disjoint embedded Incompressible surfaces In 3-Manifolds" - 2:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Working Seminar-Syzygies and Geometry: (D. Bayer, H. Pinkham, S. Popescu)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.