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.