COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Alexandru Zaharescu (McGill University & IAS)
"Level spacing statistics in number theory"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Colloquium: (D. Goldfeld)
Maciej Zworski (UC Berkeley)
"The inverse problem for resonances"
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)
Calin Lazaroui (NYU, Physics)
Applications of Mirror Symmetry to Moduli Spaces of D-branes
11:30 a.m., 705 Pupin.

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley)
"Hypergeometric Functions"
4:30 p.m., -BARNARD CAMPUS- Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall.
Tea will be served each day at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

Renormalization (J. Morgan, G. Langmead)
Greg Langmead
"The renormalization group"
10:00 a.m., 507 Math.
LAST SEMINAR FOR THE SEMESTER.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Marco Scarsini (Universit`a D'Annunzio)
"On the number of pure strategy Nash equilibria in random games"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
LAST SEMINAR FOR THE SEMESTER.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, T. Brendle)
Jason Cantarella (U Mass, Amherst)
"The ropelength and crossing number of knots and links"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.
LAST SEMINAR FOR THE SEMESTER.

Algebraic Geometry: (M. Thaddeus)
Paul Gunnells
TITLE: TBA
3:30 p.m., 417 Math.
LAST SEMINAR FOR THE SEMESTER.

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley)
"Hypergeometric Functions"
4:30 p.m., -BARNARD CAMPUS- Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall.
Tea will be served each day at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.