COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Dihua Jiang (IAS)
"The local converse theorem for generic representations of SO(2n+1)"
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.

Colloquium: (D. Goldfeld)
Alexander Varchenko (Chapel Hill)
"Verlinde algebras and the intersection form on vanishing cycles"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Alexander Varchenko (Chapel Hill)
"The Elliptic Gamma Function and SL(3,Z)"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Workshop on Topology of 3-Manifolds (J. Birman, W. Neumann, B. Mangum)
1:00 Andrew Casson (Yale)
TITLE: TBA
2:00 Danny Calegari (Harvard)
"Useful branched surfaces which carry nothing" (download preprint)
3:00 Tea: Altschul Atrium
3:30 Nathan Dunfield (Harvard)
"The virtual Haken conjecture: experiments and examples"
4:30 David Gabai (Cal Tech)
"Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
Lectures: Lehman Auditorium in Altschul Hall, Barnard College Campus
Reception: 5:30 p.m. in Altschul Atrium

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, A. Champanerkar)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Robert Friedman
"Exceptional groups and del Pezzo surfaces"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

AMS Sectional Meeting - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2000 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2055_program.html
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Sunday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.