Week of March 2, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium:
  Zoltan Fodor (Wuppertal)
  "Cim: Hadron spectrum and the QCD transition
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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)
  TBA
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
• Discrete Math
  David Speyer (MIT)
  "The Cube and Octahedron Recurrences"
  5:30 p.m., 303 Mudd
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed
  "Income Markets"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Wednesday

• Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
  David Kazhdan (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)
  "The Second Adjointness and the Plancherel Measure"
  5 p.m., 312 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. in 508 Math

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)
• Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar
  Joseph Johns (NYU)
  "An Introduction to the Category of Constructible Sheaves"
  1:10-2:40 p.m., 528 Math
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Michael Sigal (Toronto)
  "Mathematical Questions Arising from Bose-Einstein Condensation"
  4:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
  RTG Seminar: 4-4:45 p.m.
  Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
  Sophie Morel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  "On The Cohomology of Some Non-Compact Shimura Variety"
  Columbia University, 312 Math, 5:30-7 p.m.,Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, at 5 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
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Jesse Johnson (Yale)
  "Common Stabilizations for Heegaard Splittings"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research)
  Title: TBA
  Courant Institute, Room and Time TBA
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Paul Hacking (Washington)
  "Exceptional Vector Bundles Associated to Degenerations of Surfaces"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Alex Kontorovich (Brown)
  "Apollonian Circle Packings and Horospherical Flows on Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math