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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