Week of January 31, 2011

Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Vincent Duchene (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
"Asymptotic models for internal waves in Oceanography"
2:45pm, Room 210 Mudd
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Andrew King (Columbia University)
"Existence and applications of independent transversals"
4:00-5:00pm, Room 317 Mudd
Minerva Lectures $Seminar Homepage$
Johannes Muhle-Karbe (ETH Zurich)
"Shadow Prices in Portfolio Optimization with Transaction Costs"
4:00pm, Room 312 Math
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Johannes Muhle-Karbe (ETH Zurich)
"Asymptotic and Exact Pricing of Options on Variance"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Saubin Cautis (Columbia University)
"Discovering sl(2) by Counting Points"
7:00pm, Room 508 Math

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures $Seminar Homepage$
Claude Viterbo (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
"Sympletic Topology from insights to interactions"
11:00am, Room 507 Math
Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Valentino Tosatti (Columbia University)
"Einstein metrics and ε-regularity"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Minerva Lectures $Seminar Homepage$
Johannes Muhle-Karbe (ETH Zurich)
"Shadow Prices in Portfolio Optimization with Transaction Costs"
4:00pm, Room 312 Math
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ CUNY Grad Center) $Seminar Homepage$
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room C415
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room C415
Peter Sarnak (IAS & Princeton University)
"Zeroes and Nodal Lines Of Holomorphic And Maass Forms"
5:30 - 7:00pm, Room C415
Joseph Fels Ritt Lecture $Seminar Homepage$
Eduard Looijenga (University of Utrecht)
"The Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov system and Polydifferentials"
4:30pm, Room 520 Math
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Mikhail Smirnov (Columbia University)
"Dynamic Risk and Portfolio Insurance"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Peter Horn (Columbia University)
"Filtering smooth concordance classes of topologically slice knots" part 2
9:30am, Room 417 Math
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Pierre Schapira (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu)
"Sheaf quantization of Hamiltonian isotopies and applications"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Cedric Bellis (Ecole Polytechnique & University of Minnesota)
"Qualitative Methods for Inverse Scattering in Solid Mechanics"
11:00am, Room 214 Mudd
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Clement Hongler (Columbia University)
"Ising model interfaces with free boundary conditions"
12:00pm, Room 903 SSW Building
Geometric Topology $Seminar Homepage$
Josh Greene (Columbia University)
"Conway mutation of alternating links"
1:20pm, Room 520 Math
General Relativity $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
General Relativity, Joint w/ Stony Brook $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Algebraic Geometry Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Noah Giansiracusa (Brown University)
"Conformal blocks and rational normal curves"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
Joesph Fels Ritt Lecture $Seminar Homepage$
Eduard Looijenga (University of Utrecht)
"The Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov system and Polydifferentials"
4:30pm, Room 520 Math