Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

Physics Colloquium:
Paul Chaikin (NYU)
"Experiments with colloids and candies"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Please see website for details
http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Ioannis Karatzas
"Stochastic portfolio theory I"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Bailin Song (Brandeis)
"A convexity theorem and reduced Delzant spaces"
NOTE:  Day, Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., 528 Math.

Colloquium: ( M. Khovanov and E. Urban)
Ju-Lee Kim (UIC)
"Smooth representations of p-adic groups"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY  8

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Ramin Takloo-Bighash (Princeton)
"Distribution of rational points on group compactifications"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Ioannis Karatzas
"Stochastic portfolio theory II"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/research_conference.htm

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Chris Skinner (Princeton)
"A review of Shimura varieties and their cohomology II"
10:00 a.m.-11:30am., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Ji-Young Ham
"The minimal dilatation of a genus two surface"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Ionel Popescu (Northwestern)
"Tridiagonal random matrix models"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II:Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Dror Bar-Natan (Toronto)
"Algebraic knot theory"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Chris Woodward  (Rutgers)
"Chern classes for the moduli space of bundles on a curve"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Louis Leblond (Texas A&M)
"Cosmic necklaces from string theory"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Eli Grigsby
"Knot concordance and Heegaard Floer homology invariants of branched covers"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.