April 5, 2010

Monday

• Minerva Foundation Lectures
  
  

Tuesday

· Discrete Math
Per Austrin (NYU)
“Randomly Supported Independence “
3:00 p.m., 303 Mudd

· Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
Marc-Albert Michaud, (Deutsche Bank)
New Banking Regulation
7:40 p.m., 207 Math

Wednesday

· Departmental Colloquium
Sijue Wu (Michigan)
“Wellposedness of the Two and Three Dimensional Full Water Wave Problem”
5:00 p.m., 520 Math

Thursday

· Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
John Horton Conway (Princeton)
“Pascal’s Hexagram Mysticum and the Hexagrammatic Mystery”
4:30 p.m., 207 Math

• Number Theory, Joint with CUNY and NYU
  Thomas Tucker (University of Rochester)
  “GEOMETRIC PROBLEMS IN ARITHMETIC DYNAMICS”
  5:30 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415 
  *Tea served at 5:00 p.m. in Room C415
• RTG Seminar
  Thomas Tucker (University of Rochester)
  4:00 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
• Geometry and Analysis
  Ben Weinkove (UC San Diego)
  “Contracting exceptional divisors by the Kahler-Ricci flow”
  3:00 p.m., 520 Math
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
  Chenxu Li, (Columbia)
  Managing Volatility Risk
  7:40 p.m., 207 Math

Friday

· Gauge Theory and Symplectic Geometry
Yanki Lekili (MSRI)
“Lagrangian correspondences and 3-manifold invariants”
10:45 a.m., 417 Math

· Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Ngô Bào Châu (Institute for Advanced Study)
"The Hitchin Fibration and the Fundamental Lemma"
11 a.m., 520 Math 

· Geometric Topology
Diane Vavrichek
“Quasi-isometry invariant subgroups”
1:15 p.m., 520 Math

· Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
John Horton Conway (Princeton)
“Pascal’s Hexagram Mysticum and the Hexagrammatic Mystery”
4:30 p.m., 203 Math

· Algebraic Geometry

Dragos Oprea (San Diego)
“Strange duality on K3 surfaces”
2:00 p.m., 417 Math

· Minerva Foundation Lectures
William Sudderth (U. Minnesota Stats)
“De Finetti coherence and logical consistency”