Week of March 28, 2011

Minerva Lectures
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
"Dark Markets"
10:30am, Room 1025 SSW Building
Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Howard Karloff (AT&T)
"Disjoint-Path Facility Location: Theory and Practice "
4:00-5:00pm, Room 317 Mudd
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Michael Stanley (Goldman Sachs)
"Quantitative Investments"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Minerva Lectures
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
"Dark Markets"
10:30am, Room 1025 SSW Building
Special Number Theory Seminar
Jae-Hyun Yang (Inha University, Korea)
"Invariant differential operators on Siegel-Jacobi space and Maass-Jacobi forms"
4:00pm, Room 622 Math
Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Igor Halperin (JP Morgan Chase)
"Option pricing in incomplete markets by risk minimization with multiple factors and transaction costs"
4:20pm, Room 903 SSW
Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Sucharit Sarkar (Columbia University)
Title TBA
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Michael Singer (Edinburgh)
"Toric Bergman Asymptotics"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Bruno Remillard (HEC Montreal)
"Optimal hedging in discrete and continuous time"
4:20pm, Room 903 SSW
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Shiferaw Berhanu (Temple University)
"On microlocal analyticity of solutions of first order nonlinear pdes"
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
Bjorn Poonen (MIT)
"Random maximal isotropic subspaces and Selmer groups"
5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 312 Math
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Alexei Surkov (Deloitte)
"Financial instrument valuation and secuterization"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Yanki Lekili (Cambridge University)
"Fukaya categories of the torus and Dehn surgery"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
"Dark Markets"
12:00pm, Room 903 SSW Building
Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland at College Park)
"Stochastic and deterministic perturbations of systems with multiple invariant measures: long-time evolution"
2:30pm, Room 903 SSW Building
Geometric Topology $Seminar Homepage$
Dylan Thurston (Columbia University)
"A faithful action of the mapping class group from Heegaard Floer homology"
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Eric Rains (Caltech)
"Moduli spaces of differential and difference equations"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math