Physics Colloquium:
Peter Fisher (MIT)
'WiTricity: an odd adventure into the real world"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
Michel EMERY (University of Strasbourg)
Part Two of Five Lectures on Manifold-Valued Semimartingales
1:00-2:30 p.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
Esteban Tabak (Courant)
"Diagnosing through the joint Gaussianization of genomic and clinical data"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Alexandra Ovetsky Fradkin (Princeton)
"Hadwiger's conjecture for quasi-line graphs"
4:00 p.m., 622 Math
The location of the seminar will alternate between 317 Mudd and 622 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Jesus Ruiz-Mata (Lehman Brothers)
"Risk under minimum capital requirements"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban, P. Daskalopoulos)
 Sai Kee Yeung (Purdue)
 "On fake projective planes"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math

MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
Michel EMERY (University of Strasbourg)
Part Three of Five Lectures on Manifold-Valued Semimartingales
1:00-2:30 p.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Wenxiong Chen (Yeshiva University)
"Method of moving planes in integral forms"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,  L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang)
Frank Calegari (Northwestern)
"Counting automorphic forms"
Room 1314: 5:30-7:00 p.m., NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor at 5:00 p.m.

Special Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
E. Robert Fernholz (INTECH)
"Modeling equity market behavior"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 18

DOUBLE HEADER 1: Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Rama Cont (IEOR)
"Recovering default intensity from CDO markets by entropy minimization and intensity control"
10:00 a.m., 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 9th Floor in the School of Social Work
Coffee and tea will be served at 9:30 a.m., Statistics Departmental Lounge on the 10th floor of that building.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Michel Emery (Strasbourg)
"On Maximal Brownian motions"
11:00 a.m., 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 9th Floor in the School of Social Work

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff,  P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Yaron Ostrover (MIT)
"On some algebraic properties of the quantum homology"
1:00 p.m., NOTE LOCATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER - 520 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Michael Harris (Columbia & Universite Paris 7)
“Arithmetic Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups and Related Galois Representatives"
1:00 p.m., 207 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Moira Chas (Stony Brook)
"Minimal intersection of curves on surfaces"
2:15 p.m., NOTE LOCATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER - 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Mike Roth (Queen's)
"Cup products for line bundles on complete flag varieties"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Charles L. Fefferman (Columbia & Princeton)
“Whitney Extension Problems and Interpolation"
3:30-5:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.