Physics Colloquium:
Joel Primack (Physics, UC, Santa Cruz)
"Restarting the exploration of the universe: the National Academy's beyond Einstein report and the future of space astronomy"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
Aleksandra Walczak (UC, San Diego)
"From molecules to networks: the role of protein-DNA binding kinetics in stochastic gene circuits"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Mike Develin (AIM/ Columbia)
"Discrete bidding games"
4:00 p.m., 622 Mathematics
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

Colloquium: ( E. Urban, M-T Wang)
Michel Boileau (Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
"On the geometrization of 3-manifolds"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

NEW YORK AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
251 Mercer Street
NOTE LOCATION: Warren Weaver Hall 613
4:00-6:15 pm

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Fengbo Hang (NYU)
"Some rigidity results for manifolds with boundary"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Alexander Cherny (Steklov Institute, Moscow and Bloomberg, New York)
"Coherent acceptability indices and their applications"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Refik Inanc Baykur
"Finite group actions and exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Yoav Moriah
"Heegaard structures of 3-manifolds"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.