COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

DOULBLE HEADER 1: Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Yoichi Motohashi (IAS & Japan)
"Recent advances in the theory of mean values of L-functions"
4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

DOULBLE HEADER 2: Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Stephen Miller (Yale & Harvard)
"Nonvanishing of central derivatives and ranks of elliptic Q-curves"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
Chia-Fu Yu
"On trace formula of unitary Shimura varieties"
2:40 p.m., 405 Math.

Geometry and Analysis I: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong, I. Krichever)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University)
"Property 'tau' in Geometry, Combinatorics, Group Theory and Automorphic Forms" - Part I
4:30 p.m., 312 Mathematics Building.
Tea will be served each day at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene, F. Denef)
Christian Romelsberger (Rutgers)
"Stability and BPS branes"
10:30 a.m., 618 Pupin

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Antonia Foldes (CUNY, Staten Island)
"Asymptotic independence and additive functionals"
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, T. Brendle)
Douglas Zare
"A geometric invariant in contact structures on 3-manifolds, Part II"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Ron Donagi (U Penn)
"From string theory to the standard model"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University)
"Property 'tau' in Geometry, Combinatorics, Group Theory and Automorphic Forms" - Part II
4:30 p.m., 312 Mathematics Building.
Tea will be served each day at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.