Physics Colloquium:
Igor Klebanov (Princeton)
"Gauge theories, D-Branes and strings"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (G. Bal)
Hongkai Zhao (UC, Irvine)
"Fast sweeping method for static convex Hamilton-Jacobi equation"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

Colloquium: ( M. Khovanov and E. Urban)
Dipendra Prasad (TIFR & IAS)
"Period integrals, central critical L-values, and their local analogue"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 8

SPECIAL Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Francis Bonahon (USC)
"Quantum Teichmüller theory"
NOTE DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 11:00 a.m., 621 Math.

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

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Lei Ni (UC, San Diego)
"Results on solitons and applications"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,
A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
William Haboush  (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Schemes of lattices in vector spaces over the local Hilbert class field"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Talk:  Room C415
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198.
C-level: one floor down from lobby.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets (continued)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 9

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Eric Urban
"Stabilization and endoscopy II"
10:00 a.m.-11:30am., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Francis Bonahon (USC)
"Quantum hyperbolic 6j-symbols"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Lea Popovic (Cornell)
"Multiscale approximations for stochastic reaction networks"
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)
Andrew Putman (Chicago)
"An infinite presentation of the Torelli group"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Davesh Maulik  (Princeton)
"Quantum Cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points on ADE resolutions"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Bret Underwood (Wisconsin)
"Geometry in Brane Inflation"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Tim Perutz (Cambridge)
"Fibered three-manifolds and the Floer homology of fibered Dehn twists"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.