COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 21, 2000



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21

DOULBLE HEADER 1: Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Winfried Kohnen (University of Heidelberg, Germany & IAS).
"Twisted spinor zeta functions at the central point"
4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

DOULBLE HEADER 2: Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
YoungJu Choie (POSTECH, Pohang, Korea)
"Differential operators on Siegel modular forms"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
Hervé Jacquet
"L-functions and epsilon-factors" - continuation
1:00 p.m., 405 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Geometry and Analysis I: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong, I. Krichever)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene, F. Denef)
Vatche Sahakian (Cornell)
"Three faces of holography - Part I"
10:30 a.m., 618 Pupin

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Nizar Touzi (Univ. of Paris & Princeton)
"Dual formulation of the utility maximization problem under transaction costs"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea and Coffee will be served before the seminar at 10:30 am, Room 621 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, T. Brendle)
Alex Suciu (Northeastern)
"Hall invariants and the Alexander stratification of character varieties"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Andrew Kresch (UPenn)
"Brauer groups and stacks"
2:45 p.m., NOTE CHANGE OF TIME DUE TO KOLCHIN LECTURE, 417 Math.

 

ELLIS R. KOLCHIN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Hyman Bass (University of Michigan)
"Rigid Discrete Groups"
4:00 p.m., 312 Math.

Tea will be served at 3:15 p.m., 508 Math.

 

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