COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2002

DOUBLE HEADER I: Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Su-Ion Ih (University of Illinois, Chicago)
"Uniform height bounds and the Lang-Vojta conjecture"
4:00 p.m., 405 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Darren Glass
"Epsilon constants and arithmetic schemes"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
Raphael Bousso (Harvard)
"Partial light-sheets and Bekenstein's entropy bound"
2:10 p.m., 831 PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
Jeremy Dodd (NEVIS Columbia University)
"Physics Emasondosondo:  Taking Science Outreach on the Road in South Africa"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

Colloquium in Applied Mathematics: (C. Wiggins)
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Anna Gilbert (AT&T Labs)
"Mathematical problems (and some solutions) in networking"
2:45 p.m.,  room 214 S.W. Mudd building

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yum-Tong Siu  (Harvard & Columbia)
Multiplier Ideal Sheaves in Algebraic and Complex Geometry
4:15- 5:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
John Loftin
"Families of degenerating real projective surfaces"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
10:30-12:00 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Richard Thomas  (Imperial College)
"Stability conditions"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME THIS WEEK: 11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Special Seminar:
Brian Greene
"Can we test quantum gravity by observing the sky?"
1:00 p.m., 312 Math

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Richard Thomas (Imperial)
"How to become a millionaire: nodes and the Hodge conjecture"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.