Week of February 23, 2009

Monday

• Probability:
  Etienne Pardoux (Marseille)
  "Can a Single Mutant's Progeny Survive Forever?"
  9:30-11 a.m., 517 Hamilton
• Physics Colloquium:
  Stefan Schoenert (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
  "Cutting Edge Projects in Low-Energy Particle and Astroparticle Physics"
  4:15 p.m., 428 Pupin Hall

Tuesday

• Minerva Foundation Lectures:
  Hans Foellmer (Humboldt)
  "Convex Risk Measures and Their Dynamics"
  10 a.m., 1025 SSW (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
  Not meeting this week
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
• Discrete Math
  Mike Neiman (Rutgers)
  "Negative Correlation Inequalities and Log-Concavity"
  5:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed
  "Income Markets"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Wednesday

• Probability:
  Etienne Pardoux (Marseille)
  "Homogenization and SPDEs"
  9:30-11:00am 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street) 

Thursday

• Minerva Foundation Lectures:
  Hans Foellmer (Humboldt)
  "Convex Risk Measures and Their Dynamics"
  10 a.m., 1025 SSW (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
• Special RTG Seminar
  Francois Loeser (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
  "Application of Model Theory to Algebraic Geometry"
  1:30-2:30 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, Room 4214
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Bernard Shiffman  (JHU)
  "Overcrowding and Undercrowding of Random Zeros on Complex Manifolds"
  4:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
  Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
  RTG Seminar: 4-5 p.m.
  Frank Calegari (Northwestern)
  "Towards Modularity Theorems Over Imaginary Quadratic Fields"
  -and-
  RTG Seminar: 5:30-7 p.m.Francois Loeser (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
  "Some Applications of Model Theory to Algebraic Geometry"
  NYU, Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317, 5:30-7 p.m.,Tea will be served in WWH 317 at 5-5:30 p.m.
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
  "U.S. Fixed Income Markets, Continued"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Friday

• 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 a.m. in 507 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Etienne Pardoux (Marseille)
  "Periodic Homegenization: on the Homogenized Diffusion Matrix"
  Noon, 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street), Room 1025
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
  (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
  John Baldwin (Princeton)
  "Capping Off Open Books and the Ozsvath-Szabo Contact Invariant"
  Please note special time: 3:45 p.m., 520 Math
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Burt Totaro (Cambridge)
  "Algebraic Surfaces and Hyperbolic Geometry"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Xujia Wang (ANU)
  "The Afffine Maximal Surface Equation"
  2:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Joseph Maher (Oklahoma State)
  "Random Heegaard Splittings"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math