COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Ambrus Pal
"Drinfeld modular curves, Heegner points and interpolation of special values"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Colloquium: (D. Goldfeld)
Stephan Bigelow (UC Berkeley)
"The braid groups are linear"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
Chia-Fu Yu
"Introduction to Harris-Taylor's work-continuation"
1:00 p.m., 405 Math.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene, F. Denef)
Henry Tye (Cornell, Physics)
"Brane World - Part II"
10:30 a.m., 618 Pupin

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, T. Brendle)
Joan Birman
"Transversally simple knots"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.