MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Physics Colloquium:
Geoffrey West (Santa Fe Institute & Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Universal scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems; towards a
   quantitative unified theory of biological structure and organization"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Marcus Grote (Courant)
"Nonreflecting boundary conditions for multiple scattering problems"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Neshan Wickramasekera (MIT)
"Existence and regularity of stable branched minimal hypersurfaces"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Daqing Wan (UC, Irvine)
"Mirror symmetry for zeta functions"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov
Class projects overview
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Probability: (P. Bank)
Simon Brendle (Princeton)
"Portfolio optimization under incomplete information"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Karen Vogtmann (Cornell)
"Cycles at infinity in outer space"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.