Week of April 6, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium:
  Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich)
  "Inflation after WMAP"
  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)
  Mikael Rechtsman (Courant Institute)
  "Upper Bounds on Photonic Bandgaps"
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd 
• Discrete Math
  Hoi H. Nguyen (Rutgers)
  "On Squares in Sumsets"
  5:30 p.m., 303 Mudd
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioner (M. Smirnov)
  Hicham Haj-Hamou (BNP Paribas)
  "Methods of Fixed Income Arbitrage"
  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)
  No seminar this week.
  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)
  Michael Zieve (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  "The Intersection of Subfields of a Function Field"
  NYU Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102, 5:30-7 p.m.  Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in WWH 102.
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Marc-Andre Michaud (Deutsche Bank)
  "Risk Management"
  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
• Informal Symplectic Geometry: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz)
  Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Columbia)
  "The Fukaya-Nadler-Zaslow Category and Microlocalization (I)"
  *Please note the special time.  10:40 a.m., 520 Math
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz, R. Lipshitz)
  No Seminar this week.
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Keiko Kawamuro (Rice/IAS)
  "Braids and Open Book Decompositions"
  Please note the special time 1:15 p.m., 520 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Kerry Back (Texas A&M)
  "Open Loop Equilibria and Perfect Competition in Option Exercise Games"
  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)
  Lucia Caporaso (Roma III)
  "The Torelli Theorem for Stable Curves"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture
  Jacob Lurie (MIT)
  "On the Classification of Topological Field Theories"
  4 p.m., 312 Math.  Tea will be served at 3 p.m. in 508 Math.