COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

Week of November 16, 1998


MONDAY, November 16

Group Number Theory: (H. Bass, N. Benakli)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Henri Darmon (McGill, Canada)
"P-adic uniformations and the Birch and Swinnerton-dyer conjecture"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, November 17

Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard & Columbia)
"Non-Linear differential equations and geometry" - 4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

WEDNESDAY, November 18

New York Seminar on Geometry and Physics: (B. Greene)
D.H. Phong

"Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and integrable models"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.
Coffee will be served at 10:45 a.m., 508 Math.

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the
Applied Mathematics Division, Applied Physics Department and the
Department of Mathematics
Weinan E (Courant)
"Landau-Lifshitz Equations and Micromagnetics" - NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 1:30 p.m., 414 Schapiro (CEPSR)

Colloquium:
Henri Darmon (McGill, Canada)
"Recent progress in the theory of elliptic curves" - 5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, November 19

Geometry and Analysis I: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Sijue Wu (Maryland)
"Well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the full waterwave problem" - 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometry and Analysis II: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Richard Melrose (MIT)
"Contact manifolds and index theorems" - 4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, November 20

Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry: (L. Szpiro, S.W. Zhang)
Ambrus Pál
"The product theorem: Part I" - 11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Peter Lakner (NYU)
"Optimal trading strategy for an investor; the case of partial information" - 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Dev Sinha (Brown)
"Approximations to the space of knots using homotopy limits and colimits" - 1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Jim Bryan (Tulane)
"Counting curves on K3 and abelian surfaces and modular forms" - 1:30 p.m., 417 Math.