Physics Colloquium:
Gabriella Sciolla (MIT)
"Beauty in the mirror: Looking for new physics in CP violation"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Please see website for details
http://www.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/am_colloq.htm

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Leif Andersen (Bank of America)
"Efficient and robust simulation of stochastic volatility models"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY  15

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Jacob Sturm (Rutgers)
"Constant scalar curvature metrics on Kahler manifolds and the degenerate Monge-Ampere equation"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Jay Jorgenson  (City College, GC CUNY)
"Relating of Maass forms and holomorphic forms"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Talk:  Room C415
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198.
C-level: one floor down from lobby.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Ioannis Karatzas
"Stochastic portfolio theory III"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Chris Skinner (Princeton)
"A review of Shimura varieties and their cohomology III"
10:00 a.m.-11:30am., 417 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Bruno Bouchard (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6)
"Optimal reflection of diffusions and barrier options pricing under constraints"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Indira Chatterji (Ohio State)
"Median spaces"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Aleksey Zinger  (Stony Brook)
"Reduced genus-one Gromov-Witten invariants"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Joel Kamnitzer (UC, Berkeley)
"Knot homology via derived categories of coherent sheaves"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.