COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Thomas Haines (Toronto & IAS)
"Nearby cycles on local models of Shimura varieties"
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
2:00 - 3:30 p.m., 307 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Mao-Pei Tsui (Brandeis)
"Penrose inequality in asymptotically flat manifolds"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME & LOCATION: 4:30 p.m., 405 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures: (D. Goldfeld)
John H. Coates (University of Cambridge)
"Euler characteristics of p-adic lie groups and Iwasawa theory"
4:00-5:15 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m., 508 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas, T. Hayashi, L. Jensen)
Pawel Hitczenko (Drexel, Dept. of Math & Computer Science)
"Probabilistic features of certain combinatorial structures"
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)
Fred Cohen (Rochester)
"Braids, links, and homotopy groups"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Strings and Cosmology: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Eric Gawiser (UC San Diego)
"Lyman break galaxies: past, present, and future"
2:00 p.m., 1402 Pupin Hall.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University)
"Decomposition of the Hochschild complex of a scheme"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.