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.