COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

WEEK OF MARCH 26, 2001


MONDAY, MARCH 26

Special Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Don Blaisius (UCLA)
"Ramanujan conjecture for Hilbert modular forms"
4:00 p.m., 405 Math.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Stephen Lichtenbaum (Brown)
"A cohomological interpretaion of special values of zeta-functions"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, MARCH 27

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, MARCH 29

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Nina Zipser (MIT)
"Solutions of the Maxwell-Einstein equations"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30

Probability: (I. Karatzas, T. Hayashi, L. Jensen)
William Sudderth (Minnesota & Yale)
"N-person games of survival"
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)
David Bessis (Yale)
"The dual braid monoid"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Strings and Cosmology: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
SPEAKER: TBA
"Warm dark matter models"
Reading:
Giudice et al., Abazajian et al.
2:00 p.m., 14th Floor, Pupin Hall.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Young-Hoon Kiem (Stanford)
"Cohomology pairings on singular quotients in geometric invariant theory"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.