COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics
 

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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)
"Special Lagrangian submanifolds"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
Don Zagier  (Max Planck Institute of Mathematics and College de France)
"Periods of Modular Forms - From Quadratic Polynomials to Spectral Theory" - Part I
4:30 p.m., 312 Mathematics Building
Tea will be served each day at 3:45 p.m., 508 Mathematics Building

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Larry Shepp (Rutgers)
"A new model for wireless, a surprising probabilistic invariance, and a new way to think about Poisson sets"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Symplectic Geometry: (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
Alexi Akhmetshin
"Holonomy of Riemannian Manifolds and Special Lagrangian submanifolds - Part I"
NOTE: LOCATION - 11:00- 12:30 p.m., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER: I
Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, D. Zare)
Stephan Tillmann (University of Melbourne)
"Deformations of hyperbolic structures and normal surface theory"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER: II
Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, D. Zare)
Stephen Bigelow (University of Melbourne)
"Homology and the Jones polynomial"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
Don Zagier  (Max Planck Institute of Mathematics and College de France)
"Periods of Modular Forms - From Quadratic Polynomials to Spectral Theory" - Part II
4:30 p.m., 312 Mathematics Building
Tea will be served each day at 3:45 p.m., 508 Mathematics Building