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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 12, 2001

 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Jordan Ellenberg (Princeton)
"Modular Q-curves and a generalized Fermat equation"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (D. Goldfeld, S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00 - 2:30 p.m., 307 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.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Alexei Marshakov (ITEP, Moscow)
"On dispersionless Tau-function and the Hirota equation"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Probability: (I. Karatzas, T. Hayashi, L. Jensen)
Predrag Jelenkovic (Electric Engineering Dept.)
"Asymptotic losses in a fluid quene with heavy-tailed on-off processes"
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)
Abby Thompson (UC, Davis)
"Tunnel number one genus one knots"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Strings and Cosmology: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Ted Baltz (ISCAP)
10 Minute Reading: Brown et al,, Baltz and Gondolo.
"Sharpening the Slow Roll Approximation in Inflation"
Will Kinney (ISCAP)
Reading Schwarz, Martin and Riazuelo, Martin and Schwarz, Wang Mukhanov & Steinhardt, Copeland et al..
"Muon Magnetic Moment Measurements"
2:00 p.m., 1402 Pupin Hall. 2:00 p.m., 1402 Pupin Hall.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Mircea Mustata (
UC, Berkeley)
"Jet schemes of locally complete intersection canonical singularities"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

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