COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures: (D. Goldfeld)
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University & Columbia University)
Subgroup Growth: "Counting hyperbolic manifolds"
4:00-5:15 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m., 508

Linear and non-linear groups, linearization methods (A. Lubotzky, W. Neumann, J. Birman )
Matt Zinno
"Krammer's proof of braid group linearity"
2:00 p.m., 405 Math.

Colloquium: (D. Goldfeld)
Robert L. Griess, Jr. (University of Michigan)
"Groups, Nonassociative Algebras and Vertex Operator Algebras"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, I. Krichever & D.H. Phong)
Sergey Gukov (Princeton & CALTECH)
"Strings and Calabi-Yau four-folds"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Leif Jensen
"Some large deviations results for exclusion processes"
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, A. Champanerkar)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TENTATIVE: Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Robert Friedman
"Exceptional groups and del Pezzo surfaces"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.