COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF April 29, 2002

MONDAY, APRIL 29

Number Theory: (R. Pries, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Akshay Venkatesh
(Princeton)
"Symmetric Square L-functions for GL_n"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math. 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1

Symplectic Geometry: (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA

10:00- 11:30 a.m., 405 Math.

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
George Lusztig (MIT
)
"Homomorphisms of the icosahedral group into reductive groups"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME:
4:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m., 508 Math. 

THURSDAY, MAY 2

Advanced Topics in String Theory: (Greene, Porrati)
Massimo Porrati (NYU)

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)
Gabriele LaNave (NYU)
TITLE: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, MAY 3

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Gang Tian (MIT & Columbia)
Geometry of manifolds with special holonomy
11:00- 12:15 p.m., 417 Math.
Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math. 

Probability: (J. Vecer)
No seminar, instead we will have seminar on Monday, May 6, at 4:00 PM
Prof. Julien Hugonnier, Carnegie Mellon University

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)
Dan Margalit (Chicago)
"
Automorphisms of curve complexes"
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)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.