Week of March 30, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium:
  Caleb Scharf, Columbia University
  "The New Astrobiology"
  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)
  Frederic Noo, University of Utah
  Title: TBA
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
• Discrete Math
  Rama Cont (Columbia)
  "Too Interconnected to Fail: Contagion and Risk in Financial Networks"
  5:30 p.m., 303 Mudd
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Speaker: TBA
  Title: TBA
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Wednesday

• Math Colloquium (Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Eric Urban, and Mu-Tao Wang)
  Ivan Fesenko (Nottingham)
  "Geometric-Analytic Dualities on Arithmetic Surfaces"
  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)
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Chang-Shou Lin (NTU)
  "Green Function and Mean Field Equation on Torus at Critical Parameters"
  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)
  Gunther Cornelissen (Utrecht)
  "Deforming Weak Ramification"
  4 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415.  Tea will be served in C415, C-level, one floor down from lobby. 
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Speaker: TBA
  Title: TBA
  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)
  Zoltán Szabó (Princeton)
  "Heegaard Floer Homology and Complete Decomposing Systems"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Sergio Fenley (FSU/IAS)
  "Existence and Rigidity of Pseudo-Anosov Flows Transverse to R-covered Foliations"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Jeff Schenker (Michigan State)
  "Eigenvector Localization for Random Band Matrices with Power Law Band Width"
  Noon, 903 SSW Building (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street). Tea will be served at 11:30 a.m. on the 10th floor of the SSW building. 
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Elizabeth Gasparim (Edinburgh)
  "The Nekrasov Conjecture for Toric Surfaces"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Informal Symplectic Geometry: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz)
  Speaker: TBA
  Title: TBA
  3:45 p.m., 520 Math