COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

Week of November 10, 1997


MONDAY, November 10

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the Applied Mathematics Division, Applied Physics Department and the Department of Mathematics
H.O. Kreiss (Stockholm & UCLA), "Do the large scales determine the small scales in solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations"
4:30 p.m., 214 S.W. Mudd

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Zhengyu Mao (IAS, Princeton), "Base change for SL(2)"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, November 11

Group Theory: (H. Bass, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)
Yair Glasner (Hebrew Univ.), "On the arithmatic uniform lattices in Aut (the product of two trees) - continuation"
9:00 a.m., 507 Math.

WEDNESDAY, November 12

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene)
Dan Kabat (IAS, Princeton), "Introduction to theory M (atrix)"
10:30 a.m., 507 Math. Coffee will be served at 10:15 a.m., 508 Math.

Group Theory: (H. Bass, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)
Nadia Benakli, "On JSJ decomposition"
9:00 a.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, November 13

Geometry and Analysis: (M. Kuranishi)
Toti Daskalopoulos (UC, Irvine), "The free boundary in the Gauss curvature flow"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, November 14

Working Seminar-Critical Values of L-functions: (S.W. Zhang)
Nan Chen, "Positivity of the central critical values of automorphic L-function for GL(2)"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Ulrich Oertel (Rutgers), "Homeomorphisms of handlebodies"
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m., 507 Math. - Please Note: We will take a short break midway through the talk.