Week of March 9, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium:
  M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University)
  "Dirac Fermions, Topological Phases and Experimental Discovery of Quantum Hall-Like Effects Without Magnetic Field"
  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)
  Fred G. Gustavson (IBM Research)
  "The Relevance of New Data Structure Approaches for Dense Linear Algebra in the New Multi-Core/Many Core Environments"
  3-4 p.m., 214 Mudd
• Discrete Math
  Sergey Norin (Princeton)
  "K_t Minors in Large t-Connected Graphs
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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

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)
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Lihe Wang (Iowa)
  "Estimates for Equations on Convex and Quasiconvex Domains"
  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)
  Robert Rumely (University of Georgia)
  "The Berkovich Julia Set of a Rational Function and the Equicontinuity Locus"
  CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415, 5:30-7 p.m.  Tea will be served in C415, C-Level (one floor down from the lobby) 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 Curves"
  9:30 a.m., 520 Math
  Coffee and tea will be served at 9 a.m. in 507 Math
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz, R. Lipshitz)
  Alexander Ritter (MIT)
  "Novikov-Symplectic Cohomology and Exact Lagrangian Embeddings"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Tom Church (Chicago)
  "Groups of Mapping Classes That Cannot Be Realized By Diffeomorphisms"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  No seminar this week. 
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Joe Ross (Columbia)
  "The Hilbert-Chow Morphism and the Incidence Divisor"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Informal Symplectic Geometry: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz)
  Matthew Hedden (MIT)
  "New Topologically Slice Knots"
  3:45 p.m., 520 Math