Week of February 28, 2011

Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Konstantinos Spiliopoulos (Brown University)
"Large Deviations and Fast Simulation for Multiscale Diffusions and Rough Energy Landscapes"
11:00am, Room 214 Mudd

Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
John Lee (IBM)
"Submodular-function maximization"
4:00pm, Room 317 Mudd
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. Fixed Income - Fixed Income Derivatives"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Michael Harris (Paris 7 and the IAS)
"Adjoint L-functions and families of Galois representations"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Krzysztof Putyra (Columbia University)
"How Knotted are Knots?"
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Gábor Székelyhidi (Columbia University)
"Extremal metrics on CP2 blown up at two points"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Loredana Lanzani (University of Arkansas)
"The Cauchy Integral in $\mathbb C^n$"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ Columbia University) $Seminar Homepage$
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 312 Math
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room 508 Math
Umberto Zannier (Scuola Normale Superior, Pisa)
"Some Relative Cases of Manin-Mumford for Abelian Surfaces"
5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 312 Math
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
David-Antoine Fournie (Morgan Stanley)
"U.S. Equity Exotic Options and Hybrids"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Bulent Tosun (Georgia Tech)
"Legendrian and transverse knots in cabled knot types"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Murad Taqqu (Boston University and Columbia University)
"The Rosenblatt distribution"
12:00pm, Room 903 SSW Building
Geometric Topology $Seminar Homepage$
Lenhard Ng
"Filtered knot contact homology and transverse knots"
1:20pm, Room 520 Math
General Relativity Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
General Relativity, Joint w/ Stony Brook $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Algebraic Geometry Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Shigeyuki Kondo (Nagoya)
"A supersingular K3 surface in characteristic 2 and the Leech lattice"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math