Week of February 13, 2012

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Informal KRF Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Dan Rubin (Columiba)
"Intrinsic capacities on compact Kahler manifolds"
4:00pm, Room 507 Math

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Edward Frenkel (UC Berkley)
"The Langlands Program and Quantum Field Theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Wesley Pegden (NYU)
"The fractal nature of the Abelian Sandpile"
3:30pm, Room 317 Mudd
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Hanse Chung (Morgan Stanley)
"Risk Management"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Assaf Naor (NYU)
"Ultrametric skeletons"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Rankeya Datta
Title TBA
7:00pm, Room 508 Math

Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Tristan Collins
"Affine K-stability"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Agostino Capponi (Purdue University)
"Dynamic Portfolio Optimization with a Defaultable Security and Regime Switching"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
Dilip Madan (University of Maryland)
"On Pricing Contingent Capital Notes"
5:30pm, Room 903 SSW
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ NYU Courant Institute) $Seminar Homepage$
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 121 Meyer Hall
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Meyer Hall Lobby
Arul Shankar (Princeton University)
"The average size of the 2-Torsion in class groups of the cubic field"
5:30pm, Room 121 Meyer Hall
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Mitch Carpen (Tokyo Mitsubishi)
"Managing Risk in Global Banks"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Graduate Student Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
A.J. de Jong (Columbia)
"Crystalline Cohomology"
10:00am, Room 312 Math
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Katrin Wehrheim (IAS/MIT)
"The PSS morphism for general symplectic manifolds"
10:45am, Room 520 Math
Geometric Topology $Seminar Homepage$
Craig Hodgson
"Angle structures on cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Ramon van Handel (Princeton)
"The universal Glivenko-Cantelli property"
12:00pm, Room 903 SSW
Algebraic Geometry Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook)
"Pairs of real normalized differentials, cohomology of Mg, and cusps of plane curves"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
Minerva Foundation Lectures $Seminar Homepage$
Grigori Olshanski
"Determinantal processes and related topics"
3:15pm, Room 520 Math