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Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Robert Lipshitz and Maksim Lipyanskiy*
"More Fukaya category basics; compactness in T*M"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 1:10-2:40 p.m., LOCATION: TBA

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
Christina Sormani (CUNY)
"A new convergence for oriented Riemannian manifolds with boundary"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
RTG  Seminar: 4:00-4:45
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Joe Silverman  (Brown)
"Specialization theorems and unlikely intersections"
NYU, All talks in 202 Warren Weaver Hall (WWH)
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m. also in room 202 WWH

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Alexey Surkov (Deloitte)
"Credit models"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
“Random surfaces and algebraic curve"
9:30 a.m., 520 Math. Coffee and Tea will be served at 9:00 a.m. 508 Math.

Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
Jeremy Kahn (SUNY)
Title: "Random ideal triangulations and the Weil-Peterson Ehrenpreis conjecture"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Vincent Vargas (Paris Dauphine)
"Stochastic scale invariance and KPZ"
12:00 noon, 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Sucharit Sarkar (Princeton)
"Constructing CW complexes from grid diagrams"
1:10 p.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Johan Martens (Toronto)
"Moduli of parabolic Higgs bundles and Atiyah algebroids"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.