COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

Geometry and Analysis Seminar: (R. Hamilton, M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Maciej Zworski (Berkeley)
"Dimension of the limit set and the distributionof resonances for hyperbolic surfaces"
NOTE SPECIAL DATE & TIME: 11:00 a.m., 507 Math. FINAL SEMINAR OF THE SEMESTER

Group Number Theory: (H. Bass, N. Benakli)
Jennifer Austin
"Property T, amenability and expander families" 4:00-5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Erez Lapid (UCLA & IAS)
"Periods of truncated Eisenstein series" 5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

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

Colloquium:
Walter Neumann (Melbourne)
"Hilbert's 3rd problem and invariants of 3-manifolds" 5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability (I. Karatzas)
Shige Peng (Shandong)
"Some open problems in backward stochastic differential equations" 12:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry: (L. Szpiro, S.W. Zhang)
Ambrus Pál
"The product theorem: Part III" - 11:00 a.m., 507 Math. FINAL SEMINAR OF THE SEMESTER

Probability (I. Karatzas)
Mihail Zervos (Newcastle)
"Pricing of investments in real assets" 11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Brian Mangum (Barnard-Columbia)
"Subgroup separability and the generalized word problem in Aut(F_n) and the Braid Groups" 1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Eyal Markman (Massachusetts)
"Brill-Noether reflections for sheaves on K3 surfaces" 1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Walter Neumann (Melbourne)
"Using links to study complex affine plane curves" 2:00 p.m., 507 Math.