COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Philippe Michel (IAS, IUF, Montpellier II)
"On the analytic theory of central values of Rankin-Selberg convolution L-functions in the level aspect"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene, M. Faux)
Frederik Denef
"Attractors in special geometry"
11:30 a.m., 705 Pupin

Special Seminar: (D. Goldfeld)
Gerhard Huisken (Princeton)
"Foliations in asymptotically flat 3-manifolds"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis I: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi)
END OF SEMINARS FOR THE SEMESTER.

Renormalization (J. Morgan, G. Langmead)
Greg Langmead
"Divergences, Weinberg's theorem, regularization"
10:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Vladimir Dobric (Lehigh)
"An application of geometric sums of random variables to wavelet design"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, T. Brendle)
Stephen Sawin (Fairfield)
"Variations on the Kirby calculus and invariants of spin and framed manifolds"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Ian Morrison (Fordham)
"Mori cones of moduli spaces of pointed curves"
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.