Week of April 4, 2011

Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Zeljka Ljujic (CUNY)
"A Lower Bound for the Size of a Sum of Dilates"
4:00-5:00pm, Room 317 Mudd
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Tebogo Phiri (Royal Bank of Canada)
"Statistical Arbitrage"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Gunnar Klinkhammer (Man Investments)
"Investing billions with systematic models: a giant exercise in statistics"
4:20pm, Room 903 SSW
Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Christopher Skinner (Princeton University)
"Algebraicity of special values of L-functions"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Ioan Filip (Columbia University)
"Expander Graphs in Number Theory"
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Nam Q. Le (Columbia University)
"Boundary regularity for solutions to linearized Monge-Ampère equations"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
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, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
Sonal Jain (MSRI)
"Modeling Lambda Invariants by p-adic random matrices"
5:30 - 7:00pm, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Mikhail Smirnov (Columbia University)
"Portfolio Allocation and Insurance"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT)
"On Homological Mirror Symmetry for Toric varieties"
9:30am, Room 417 Math
Dan Rutherford (Duke University)
"A combinatorial Legendrian knot DGA from generating families"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Jean Jacod (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
"The quadratic variation of an It\^o semimartingale without Brownian part"
12:00pm, Room 903 SSW Building
Geometric Topology $Seminar Homepage$
Martin Scharlemann
"Fibered knots and potential counterexamples to the Property 2R and Slice-Ribbon Conjectures"
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Sam Payne (Yale University)
"Tropical Brill-Noether theory"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math