COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

Week of May 4, 1998



MONDAY, May 4

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Ravi Ramakrishna (Yale)
"Deforming an even Galois representation"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

WEDNESDAY, May 6

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene)
END OF SEMINARS THIS SEMESTER.

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the Applied Mathematics Division, Applied Physics Department and the Department of Mathematics
Karen Uhlenbeck (IAS)
"Permutability formulas for an interesting 2+1 soliton equation"
4:30 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, May 7

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
END OF SEMINARS THIS SEMESTER.

Working Seminar - Trees and Related Topics: (N. Benakli, Y. Glasner, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)
SPEAKER: TBA
"
Trees and SL2" - continuation
6:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, May 8

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
END OF SEMINARS THIS SEMESTER.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman)
Wei-Dong Ruan
"Kähler cone for Calabi-Yau manifolds"
1:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
END OF SEMINARS THIS SEMESTER.

Working Seminar-Syzygies and Geometry: (D. Bayer, H. Pinkham, S. Popescu)
END OF SEMINARS THIS SEMESTER.