Physics Colloquium:
Amir Yacoby (Harvard)
"Graphene – What’s in there?"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
David Bindel (Courant)
"Computer aided design of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems: from resonance poles to Dick Tracy watches"
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.

Colloquium: ( M. Khovanov and E. Urban)
Atsushi Ichino (Osaka)
"Periods of automorphic forms and special values of L-functions"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH  22

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

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Dan Popovici
"Morse inequalities"
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)
Atsushi Ichino (Osaka)
"Trilinear forms and the central values of triple product L-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)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets (continued)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

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

DOUBLE HEADER I: Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Grigoris Pavliotis (Imperial)
"Amplitude equations for Stochastic PDEs"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 10:00 a.m., 203 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Matthew Hedden (MIT)
"Lens space surgeries and algebraic curves"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 10:45 a.m., 207 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Gordan Zitkovic (UT-Austin)
"Stability and equilibria in incomplete markets"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be not be served today.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Ken Baker  (UT-Austin)
"Non-null homologous knots in lens spaces with once-punctured tori"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Daniel Huybrechts (Universitat Bonn)
"Derived equivalences of K3 surfaces and orientation"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Thomas Grimm (Wisconsin)
"Generalized N=1 orientifold compactifications"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
William Fulton (Michigan & Columbia)
“Equivariant cohomology in algebraic geometry"
3:30 p.m., 203 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Joint NY Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Columbia:
Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)
"A symplectic category featuring Lagrangian correspondences and holomorphic quilts"
4:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Joint NY Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Columbia:
Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)
"The space of plane fields on a 3-manifold"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math.