Columbia University Mathematics Colloquium

Spring 2006

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Columbia Mathematics Department Colloquium meets in Math 520 every three weeks on Wednesday afternoons at 5:00, and is preceded by tea at 4:30. Colloquia are of general mathematical interest and aimed at both faculty and graduate students. Please click on the title for the abstract.

Feb. 1	Laszlo Erdos  (University of Munich, visiting Harvard)	Mathematical analysis of quantum dynamics with many degrees of freedom
Feb. 2 (Thursday, 5:30pm)	Ian Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago)	Arithmetic reflection groups
Feb. 15	Ambrus Pal (IHES)	K_2 of elliptic surfaces and the rigid analytic regulator
Mar. 1	David Gabai (Princeton)	Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Mar. 8	Kazuhiro Fujiwara (Nagoya University)	Vanishing theorems for Shimura varieties
Mar. 22	Ralph Greenberg (University of Washington)	Ranks of elliptic curves
Mar. 29	Ivan Smith (University of Cambridge)	Morse meets Stein
Apr. 5	Frederic Bourgeois (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)	Contact structures : examples and constructions
Apr. 19	Haruzo Hida (U. C. L. A.)	Serre's conjecture and base change for GL(2)
May 10	Eric D’Hoker (U. C. L. A.)	Some geometrical problems in AdS/CFT

Fall 2004 schedule, Spring 2005schedule, Fall 2005schedule

Organizer: Eric Urban and Mu-Tao Wang

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