Week of April 13, 2009

Monday

• Special Number Theory Seminar
  Benedict Gross (Harvard)
  "Restriction Problems for Classical Groups"
  2:30 p.m., 417 Math
• Physics Colloquium:
  TBA
  4:15 p.m., 428 Pupin Hall

Tuesday

• Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
  Jonathan Arnou (UCLA)
  "Mapping Regime Transitions in Deep Convection Models of the Outer Planets"
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd 
• Discrete Math
  Jonathan L. Gross (Columbia)
  "Link and Graph-Imbedding Models for Cyclic Weaving on Surfaces"
  5:30 p.m., 303 Mudd
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Wilmer Henao (ING)
  "Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Wednesday

• Mathematics Colloquium (Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Eric Urban, and Mu-Tao Wang)
  Benedict Gross (Harvard)
  "Values of Zeta Functions at Negative Integers and the Dimensions of Spaces of Modular Forms"
  5 p.m., 312 Math.  Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. in 508 Math.

Thursday

• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Yu Yuan (U. Washington)
  Title: TBA
  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)
  Wee Teck Gan (University of California at San Diego)
  "Formal Degrees and the Local Theta Correspondence" 
  Columbia University, Mathematics Building, Room 312.  Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in the Math Lounge, Mathematics Building, Room 508.
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Hans Foellmer (Humboldt University)
  "Convex Risk Measures"
  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
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Rene Carmona (Princeton ORFE)
  "Mathematics of the Emissions Markets"
  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.
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz, R. Lipshitz)
  Joeseph Johns (NYU)
  "Lefchetz Fibrations on Cotangent Bundles and Lagrangian Submanifolds"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Andrew Putman (MIT)
  Title: TBA
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Jun Li (Stanford)
  Title: TBA
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Informal Symplectic Geometry: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz)
  No seminar this week, instead go to extra Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory.
  3:45 p.m., 520 Math
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz, R. Lipshitz)
  Daniel Mathews (Stanford)
  "Chord Diagrams, Topological Quantum Field Theory, and the Sutured Floer Homology of Solid Tori"
  3:45 p.m., 520 Math