COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Group Theory: (H. Bass, G. Rosenberg)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Number Theory - DOUBLE HEADER I: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Stephen Miller (Yale)
"Landau-Siegel zeroes and black hole entropy"
4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Number Theory - DOUBLE HEADER II: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Wee Teck Gan (Princeton)
"A Siegel-Weil formula for exceptional groups"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever)
Barry McCoy (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"Integrable models in statistical mechanics: The hidden field with unsolved problems"
2:00 p.m., 528 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever)
Dennis DeTurck (Penn.)
"Spectral geometry for the writhing of knots and the helicity of vector fields"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
John H. Coates (University of Cambridge)
"Iwasawa Theory - I"
5:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 4:45 p.m., 508 Math.

Applied Probability Day: (I. Karatzas)
C.P. Davis Alumni Auditorium
412 Schapiro Center
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Soren Asmussen (Lund, Sweden)
"Exponential Martingales in Applied Probability"
Rene A. Carmona (Princeton)
"Transport by Stochastic Flows: Rigorous Results, Simulations and Conjectures"
Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale)
"Multifractal Properties of Financial Prices"
Don Dawson (Fields Institute)
"Measure-valued Models of Catalytic and Mutually Catalytic Branching"
Thomas Liggett (UCLA)
"Contact Processes on Lattices and Trees"
Ruth Williams (UCSD)
"Reflecting Diffusions and Queueing Networks"

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Daryl Cooper (Santa Barbara)
"The orbifold theorem"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Mira Bernstein (Harvard)
"Moduli of curves with level structure"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
John H. Coates (University of Cambridge)
"Iwasawa Theory - II"
5:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 4:45 p.m., 508 Math.