Week of February 13, 2012
Monday
- Informal KRF Seminar
Dan Rubin (Columiba)
"Intrinsic capacities on compact Kahler manifolds"
4:00pm, Room 507 Math
Tuesday
- Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Edward Frenkel (UC Berkley)
"The Langlands Program and Quantum Field Theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Applied Mathematics Colloquium
No Seminar This Week - Discrete Math Seminar
Wesley Pegden (NYU)
"The fractal nature of the Abelian Sandpile"
3:30pm, Room 317 Mudd - Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
Hanse Chung (Morgan Stanley)
"Risk Management"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math
Wednesday
- Department Colloquium
Assaf Naor (NYU)
"Ultrametric skeletons"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
- Undergraduate Math Society
Rankeya Datta
Title TBA
7:00pm, Room 508 Math
Thursday
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
Tristan Collins
"Affine K-stability"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Risk Seminar
Agostino Capponi (Purdue University)
"Dynamic Portfolio Optimization with a Defaultable Security and Regime Switching"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
Dilip Madan (University of Maryland)
"On Pricing Contingent Capital Notes"
5:30pm, Room 903 SSW
- Geometry & Analysis Seminar
No Seminar This Week - Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ NYU Courant Institute)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 121 Meyer Hall
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Meyer Hall Lobby
Arul Shankar (Princeton University)
"The average size of the 2-Torsion in class groups of the cubic field"
5:30pm, Room 121 Meyer Hall - Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
Mitch Carpen (Tokyo Mitsubishi)
"Managing Risk in Global Banks"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math
Friday
- Graduate Student Seminar
A.J. de Jong (Columbia)
"Crystalline Cohomology"
10:00am, Room 312 Math
- Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Katrin Wehrheim (IAS/MIT)
"The PSS morphism for general symplectic manifolds"
10:45am, Room 520 Math - Geometric Topology
Craig Hodgson
"Angle structures on cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math
- Probability Seminar
Ramon van Handel (Princeton)
"The universal Glivenko-Cantelli property"
12:00pm, Room 903 SSW - Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook)
"Pairs of real normalized differentials, cohomology of Mg, and cusps of plane curves"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math - Minerva Foundation Lectures
Grigori Olshanski
"Determinantal processes and related topics"
3:15pm, Room 520 Math
