COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Carlos J. Moreno (Baruch)
"The method of p-adic stationary phase for exponential sums in the sense of Hua and Igusa"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene)
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
"Geometric Engineering of QFTs" - 11:00 a.m., 705 Pupin

Center for Applied Probability (CAP) Special Seminar in Applied Probability
Bartek Blaszczyszyn (Wroclaw, Poland & CAP/IEOR)
"Factorial Moment Expansion for Functionals of Point Processes with Application to Approximations of Stochastic Models"
4:00 p.m., 227 S.W. Mudd

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Elisha Falbel (Univ. Paris VI)
"A Poinca´re polyhedron theorem for complex hyperbolic geometry" - 4:10 p.m., 507 Math.

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the Applied Mathematics Division, Applied Physics Department and the Department of Mathematics
Boris Shraiman (Bell Lab)
"Scalar Turbulence"- 4:30 p.m., 214 S.W. Mudd.

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Chris Sogge (Johns Hopkins University)
"Remarks on Nikodym type sets in curved space" - 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Working Seminar - Trees and Related Topics: (N. Benakli, Y. Glasner, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)
Shahriar Mokhtari-Sharghi - "Trees and SL2" - continuation - 6:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman)
Michael Thaddeus
"Gromov-Witten invariants and quantum cohomology" - 1:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Heather Johnston (Rutgers)
"Nontrivial embeddings of polygonal intervals and unknots in 3-space" - 1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Working Seminar-Syzygies and Geometry: (D. Bayer, H. Pinkham, S. Popescu)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.