Week of April 11, 2011
Monday
- No Seminars Scheduled
Tuesday
- Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Mark Ablowitz (University of Colorado)
"Nonlinear waves: from oceans to 'optical graphene'"
2:45pm, Room 210 Mudd - Discrete Math Seminar
Cliff Stein (Columbia University)
"Optimization Problems in Internet Advertising"
4:00pm, Room 317 Mudd - Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
Karen Pham Van (Balestra Capital)
"Tail Hedging Alternatives in a Global Macro Portfolio"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math
Wednesday
- Risk Seminar
Jose Enrique Figueroa-Lopez (Purdue University)
"Near-expiration behavior of implied volatility for exponential Levy models"
4:20pm, Room 903 SSW - Department Colloquium
Toby Gee (Northwestern University)
"Potential Automorphy"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math - Undergraduate Math Society
Maksim Lipyanskiy (Columbia University)
"The Trefoil Knot, SL_2(Z) and Modular Forms"
7:00pm, Room 508 Math
Thursday
- Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Claude Viterbo (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
"Sympletic Topology from insights to interactions"
11:00am, Room 507 Math
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
Valentino Tosatti (Columbia University)
"Volume estimates for Kähler-Einstein manifolds"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Benoit Charbonneau (St. Jerome's University)
"A Hodge filtration on vector bundles"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math - Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ CUNY Graduate Center)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room C415
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room C415
Mahdi Asgari (Oklahoma State University)
"Counting Cusp Forms"
5:30 - 7:00pm, Room C415 - Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
Mitch Carpen (Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi)
"Risk Management in Banks"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math
Friday
- Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar
No Seminar This Week - Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Frol Zapolsky (Tel-Aviv University)
"On the Hofer geometry on the space of Lagrangians"
10:45am, Room 417 Math - Probability Seminar
Columbia-Princeton Probability Day (At Princeton University) - Geometric Topology
Nathan Dunfield
"The least spanning area of a knot and the Optimal Bounding Chain Problem"
1:20pm, Room 520 Math - General Relativity Seminar
No Seminar This Week
- General Relativity, Joint w/ Stony Brook
Lars Andersson (Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics/Harvard)
"The black hole stability problem"
2:00pm, Room 507 Math
Tea break, 3:00pm Room 508 Math
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)
"From the Geometry of Einstein-Maxwell Spacetimes in General Relativity to Gravitational Radiation"
3:30pm, Room 507 Math - Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Andrew Obus (Columbia University)
"Cyclic extensions and the local lifting problem"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
