COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF April 8, 2002
MONDAY, APRIL 8
Number
Theory: (R.
Pries, 
H.
Jacquet, 
S.W.
Zhang)
Elena Mantovan 
(Harvard)
"On certain unitary group Shimura varieties"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served
at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math. 
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10
Symplectic Geometry:  (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
Richard Thomas
"Nodes, symplectic geometry, and mirror symmetry"
10:00- 11:30 a.m., 405 Math.
String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene,
Kabat)
Brandon Bates
Attractor flows
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.
COLLOQUIUM: 
(D. Daskalopoulos)
Richard Melrose (MIT)
"Families of operators, forms and gerbes"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
 
THURSDAY, APRIL 11
Advanced Topics in String Theory: 
(Greene,
Porrati)
Massimo Porrati 
(NYU)
Prof Dvali
12:30-2;30 p.m., Video-broadcast
From:  NYU, 269 Mercer st. room 602 (videoconference room). To: 908 Pupin.
Duke-Rutgers-Columbia String Theory: (Greene, 
Schalm)
2:30 p.m., Video-broadcast To: 908 Pupin.
Geometry
and Analysis: (R. Hamilton,
J.
Loftin)
Christina Sormani (CUNY Lehman College)
"Limits of 
covers of balls with Ricci curvature bounded below"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Samuel 
Eilenberg Lectures:
Gang Tian 
(MIT &
Columbia)
   
   Geometry of manifolds with special holonomy
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Probability: 
(J. Vecer)
Jan Vecer joint with 
Mingxin Xu (Carnegie 
Mellon)
TITLE: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 
a.m., 621 Math.
Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry:
(S.W.
Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00-2:30 p.m., 417 Math.
Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman,
W. Neumann,
I. Kofman)
Tao Li  (Oklahoma)
"Constructing 
essential laminations and taut foliations"
1:15- 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
String Theory and Cosmology: (Greene, 
Schalm)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.
Algebraic
Geometry:  (R.
Friedman)
Ravi Vakil (Stanford and MSRI)
"Vanishing 
of cohomology classes on the moduli space of curves"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.