DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

Winter 1997


FRIDAY  	 	"GROMOV-WITTEN INVARIANTS AND THE ENUMERATION
Jan. 10	  	OF ELLIPTIC SPACE CURVES"
		        	Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University

FRIDAY  		"KAZHDAN'S FORMS OF REPRESENTATIONS AND
Jan. 17 		DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS ON G/U"
		       	Roman Bezrukavnokov, Institute for Advanced Study

FRIDAY  		"ANALYTIC TORSION AND THE TOPOLOGY OF 
Jan. 24 		DIFFEOMORPHISM GROUPS" 
			       John Lott, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor

FRIDAY		
Jan. 31 		NO COLLOQUIUM

FRIDAY  		"ON THE COMPLEXITY OF SOLVING SYSTEMS OF
Feb. 7  		POLYNOMIAL EQUATIONS"
			       Carlos Berenstein, Institute for Systems Research,
			       University of Maryland

FRIDAY  		"APPLICATION OF SYMPLECTIC TOPOLOGY TO GENERALIZED CASSON'S
INVARIANTS OF 3-MANIFOLDS"
Feb. 14 		Ronnie Lee, Yale University

FRIDAY  		*1997 Antoni Zygmund Lectures (I,II, III)
Feb. 21 		Lecture I:  "POTENTIAL THEORY AND BOUNDARY 
			       BEHAVIOR OF NON-NEGATIVE SOLUTIONS OF 
			       ELLIPTIC AND PARABOLIC EQUATIONS"
		       	Eugene Fabes, University of Minnesota

FRIDAY  		"TBA"
Feb. 28 		Brian Parshall, Northwestern University

FRIDAY		"VON NEUMANN ALGEBRAS IN COMPLEX ANALYSIS"
March 7		Mikhail Shubin, Northeastern University

FRIDAY		"THE UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION OF SMALL POINTS"
MARCH 14		L. Szpiro, University of Paris/Orsay



Time:    	4:00 P.M.
Place:  	 Room 206, Eckhart Hall, 5734 South University Avenue
		        Tea is served at 3:30 P.M. in Room 209 of Eckhart


*NOTE:  The First Zygmund Lecture will be held in Ryerson Room 251;
	       Lectures II and III will also be held in Ryerson on Monday 
	       Feb. 24 and Tues. Feb. 25 respectively