COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Shai Haran (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
"Mysteries of the real prime"
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)
Shai Haran (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
"On Riemann Zeta functions"
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.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Jeff Viaclovsky (MIT)
"A new variational characterization of three-dimensional space forms"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas, T. Hayashi, L. Jensen)
Damir Filipovic (ETHZ)
"Consistency problems for HJM interest rate models"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Special Algebraic Geometry Day: (Michael Thaddeus)
12:00 Sándor Kovacs (Washington)
"Families of varieties of general type"
2:30 Robert Lazarsfeld (Michigan)
"Some algebraic applications of multiplier ideals"
3:30 Tea in the Mathematics Lounge, room 508.
4:00 János Kollár (Princeton)
"The nonprojective Nash conjecture"
All Seminars will be held in room 417 Mathematics.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, A. Champanerkar)
Rita Gitik (Michigan)
"On the profinite toplogy on Coxeter groups"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Strings and Cosmology: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Achim Kempf (U. Florida)
"Inflation in the presence of a cutoff"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin Hall.