COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 23, 2002

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yum-Tong Siu  (Harvard & Columbia)
Multiplier Ideal Sheaves in Algebraic and Complex Geometry
4:15- 5:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math. 

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos, Peter Oszvath)
David Gabai (Princeton)
"Geometric and topological rigidity of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Advanced Topics in String Theory: (Greene, Porrati)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
From:  NYU, 269 Mercer st. room 602 (videoconference room). To: 908 Pupin.

Duke-Rutgers-Columbia String Theory: (Greene, Schalm)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:30 p.m., Video-broadcast To: 908 Pupin.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Jacob Sturm (Rutgers Newark)
"Scalar curvature, moment maps and Deligne pairings"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 2:00-3:30 p.m., 417 Math.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Michael Schroeder (University of Karlsruhe)
"Yor's Hartman-Watson Theory Revisited"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Bruce Kleiner (Michigan)
"Boundaries of Gromov hyperbolic spaces and (generalized) uniformization of metric 2-spheres"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Christopher Leininger
"Virtually fibering surgeries on one component of the Whitehead link"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Philip Boalch
"Symplectic geometry of moduli spaces of irregular meromorphic connections on curves"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.