COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
James Borger (MIT)
"Conductors over local fields with arbitrary residue fields"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

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.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Albert Chau
"Káhler Ricci flow on noncompact manifolds"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas, T. Hayashi, L. Jensen)
Steve Shreve (CMU, Math. Dept.)
"Options on a traded account"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Double Header I: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, A. Champanerkar)
Anatoly Vershik (Steklov Institute, Russia)
"The problem of description of the Poisson-Furstenberg boundary of braid groups"
10:30 a.m., 507 Math.

Double Header II: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, A. Champanerkar)
David Boyd (University of British Columbia)
"Mahler's measure and the A-polynomial of hyperbolic manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Strings and Cosmology: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
David Bennett (Notre Dame)
"Cosmology with the galactic exoplanet survey telescope"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin Hall.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)
"Mirror symmetry and special Lagrangians"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.