Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets. Spot, forward rates and options"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25

Special Geometry and Rigidity Day, January 25, 2006

Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard University)
Title to be announced
2:00-3:00 p.m.

Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)
“On fixed point theorems and the heat equation”
3:15-4:15 p.m.

Tea Break
4:15-4:45 p.m.

Ngaiming Mok (University of Hong Kong)
“Extension of germs of holomorphic isometries with respect to the Bergman metric”
4:45-5:45 p.m.

All talks in room 520 Math. Coffee and tea will be served at 4:15 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
Ovidiu Savin (Berkeley)
"C^{1,\alpha} regularity for infinity harmonic function in the plane"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets (Continued)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Richard Bass (UConn)
"Symmetric Markov chains on $Z^d$ with unbounded range"
11:00 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, School of Social Work Building
Seminars will be in Room 305.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 10th floor, Statistics Lounge.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Feng Luo (Rutgers)
"Volume and angle structures on 3-manifolds"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Frans Oort  (University of Utrecht)
"Leaves in a moduli space of abelian varieties and their dimensions"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.