Recent and Upcoming Lectures and Conferences

Upcoming/Current Conferences and Lecture Series

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2012
  
  Edward Frenkel (UC Berkeley)
  "The Langlands Program and Quantum Field Theory"
  Tuesdays beginning Jan 24th, 2:40pm, Room 520 Math
  **Video of lectures available here**
  
  
• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2012
  Grigori Olshanski
  "Determinantal processes and related topics"
  Fridays, beginning January 20th, 3:15pm, Room 520 Mathematics
  
  
• Columbia-Princeton Probability Day
  March 2, 2012
  
  
• Probability, Control and Finance
  A conference in honor of Prof. Ioannis Karatzas' 60th birthday
  June 4 - June 8, 2012
  

Recent Conferences and Lecture Series

2011

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2011
  Eduard Looijenga (University of Utrecht)
  "The Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov system and Polydifferentials"
  February 3 & 4, 2011
  
  
• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
  Benson Farb (University of Chicago)
  "Permutations and Polynomiality in Algebra and Topology"
  December 15, 4:30pm in Room 312 Mathematics
  "Hidden Symmetry"
  December 16, 4:30pm in Room 312 Mathematics
  
  
• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2011
  
• Johannes Muhle-Karbe (ETH Zurich)
  "Shadow Prices in Portfolio Optimization with Transaction Costs"
  February 1, 3, 7 & 8 
• Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
  "Dark Markets"
  March 29-April 1, Rooms 1025/903 SSW
• Joseph Teichmann
  "Affine Processes: Theory & Applications"
  April 18-29, 2011
  
  
• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2011
  
• Denis Talay (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
  "Model Risk: Modeling, Analysis, Control and Numerics"
  September 7-15, 2011
  
• Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA)
  "Phase transitions in stochastic processes with long-range interactions: a multiscale analysis approach"
  September 22 - October 27, 2011
  
  
• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2011
  Claire Voisin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  "Hodge Structures on Cohomology Algebras"
  Friday, March 11, 2011
  
  
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2011
  Claude Viterbo (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
  "Sympletic Topology from insights to interactions"
  February 23 - April 28, 2011
  
  
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2011
  Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
  "Representation theory and number theory"
  Tuesdays, beginning Sept 20, 2:40pm, Room 520 Math
  **Video of lectures available here**
  
  
• The Versatility of Integrability
  A Conference on Integrable systems in algebra, geometry, and physics: celebrating Igor Krichever's 60th Birthday
  May 4-7, 2011
  
  
• Moduli Spaces and Moduli Stacks
  A conference on moduli of curves, stable maps, vector bundles, coherent sheaves, and the like, and on recent developments in the theory of algebraic stacks.
  May 23-27, 2011
  
  
• Walterfest!
  Faces of geometry: 3-manifolds, groups and singularities; a conference in honor of Walter Neumann
  June 6-10, 2011
  
  
• Periods of Automorphic forms and Applications to L-functions
  List of speakers and talks
  September 15 - 18 at Columbia University
  
  
• Workshop on Equivariant Quantum Differential Equations
  List of speakers/times/locations
  September 16-19
  

2010

• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2010
  David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)
  "Vector Bundles and Free Resolutions"
  
  
• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2010
  John Horton Conway (Princeton)
  "Pascal's Hexagram Mysticum and the Hexagrammatic Mystery"
  
  
• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2010
  Clifford Taubes (Harvard University)
  "The Principle of Universal Equivalence"
  December 9th and 10th, 4:30pm
  
  
• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2010
• Walter Schachermeyer(Vienna)
  "The Asymptotic Theory of Transaction Costs"
• Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge)
  "Lattice Models in Probability"
• Ofer Zeitouni (UMN & Weizmann Institute)
  "Random Walks in Random Environments"
   
  
• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2010
  Boris L. Rozovski (Brown University)
  "Generalized Malliavin Calculus and Stochatstic PDEs"
  
  
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2010
  Ngô Bào Châu (Institute for Advanced Study)
  "The Hitchin Fibration and the Fundamental Lemma"
  
  
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2010
  Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
  "Algebraic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory"
   
• Ninth Northeast Probability Seminar
  CUNY Graduate Center
  November 18 - 19, 2010
  
  
• Benoit Stroh (CNRS-Paris)
  "Do Vanishing Cycles Compute the Cohomology of Shimura Varieties?"
  
  
• Mathematics and Statistics/JAFEE, March 9-10, 2010 (Organizers: Jan Vecer, Mikhail Smirnov and Takaki Hayashi).