COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Special Math/Physics Seminar: (D.H. Phong, M. Faux)
Bernard Julia (ENS Paris)
"Holography of Charges in Gauge Theories"
10:30 a.m., 705 Pupin.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Paula Cohen (Lille, France and IAS)
"Distribution of special points on subvarieties of Shimura varieties and applications"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene, F. Denef)
Dan Kabat (Physics, Columbia)
"Gaussian matrices and black holes - part I"
10:30 a.m., 618 Pupin

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Patrick McDonald (South Florida)
"Diffusions, boundary value problems and isoperimetric properties of Riemannian spaces"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served before the seminar at 10:30 am, Room 621 Math.

DOULBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, T. Brendle)
Martin Scharlemann (UC Santa Barbara)
"Levelling an unknotting tunnel"
1:10-2:00 p.m., 507 Math.

DOULBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, T. Brendle)
Brian Mangum
"Brunnian links are determined by their complements"
2:10-3:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Aaron Bertram (Utah)
"Localization and genus-zero Gromov-Witten invariants"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.