COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by
the Applied Mathematics Division, Applied Physics Department and
the Department of Mathematics
Seymour Parter (Wisconsin)
"On the overlapping grid method for Ell
NOTE SPECIAL DATE: 4:30 p.m., 414 Schapiro (CEPSR)

Group Number Theory: (H. Bass, N. Benakli)
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University)
"Counting hyperbolic manifolds"
4:00-5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Dennis Hejhal (Uppsala, Sweden)
"On the zeros of linear combinations of Euler products"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard & Columbia)
"Non-Linear differential equations and geometry"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene)
Brian Greene
"Recent developments in string/M-theory: A review for the non-specialist"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math. Coffee will be served at 10:45 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Weinan E (Courant)
"Burgers equation and Aubry-Mather theory"
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME: 4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry: (L. Szpiro, S.W. Zhang)
Lucien Szpiro
"Degrees and Heights II"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Halil M. Soner (Princeton)
"Super-replication under Gamma constraints"
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Xiao-Song Lin (UC, Riverside)
"The colored Jones polynomial and the Ihara-Selberg zeta functions"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Hiraku Nakajima (Kyoto & IAS)
"Moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces and affine algebras"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 2:00 p.m., 417 Math.