COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

Week of October 13, 1997

MONDAY, October 13

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Ted Chinburg (University of Pennsylvania)
"Duality and metrics in Galois structure theory"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, October 14

* REMINDER * TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO RESERVE A PLACE AT THE BANQUET IN HONOR OF HYMAN BASS - PLEASE READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW.

Group Theory: (H. Bass, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)
Yair Glasner (Hebrew Univ.)
"On the arithmatic uniform lattices in
Aut (the product of two trees)"
9:00 a.m., 507 Math.

WEDNESDAY, October 15

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene) - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the Applied Mathematics Division,
Applied Physics Department and the Department of Mathematics

Dr. Chao Tang (NEC Research Laboratory, Princeton)
"Why do proteins prefer certain folds"
4:30 p.m., 214 S.W. Mudd

THURSDAY, October 16

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi)
Christopher Thiele (Kiel, FRG)
"Time-frequency analysis and the bilinear Hilbert transform"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, October 17

Probability Seminar: (I. Karatzas)
Henryk Wozniakowski (Statistics, Columbia)
"Computational complexity of path integration"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

Working Seminar-Critical Values of L-functions: (S.W. Zhang)
Shou-Wu Zhang, "Introduction to the work of Gross and Zagier (Part V)"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum) - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
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UPCOMING CONFERENCE - NOVEMBER 6-7, 1997

bulletA Conference on the Occasion of the 65th Birthday of Hyman Bass
Algebra, K-Theory, Groups, and Education:
417 Altschul Auditorium, International Affairs Building
BANQUET: NOVEMBER 6 at Faculty House -
ADVANCE RESERVATIONS ONLY - $35.00 per person
Contact Dolores Cea (dc@math.columbia.edu) before October 14
GO TO - www.math.columbia.edu/conf/bass