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

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY  22

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

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,
A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Chris Skinner (Princeton)
"Vanishing of L-functions and ranks of Selmer groups"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

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.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Adriano Marmora (Concordia)
"P-adic local constant"
10:00 a.m.-11:30am., 417 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Sara Biagini (University of Perugia)
TITLE: TBA
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Jesse Johnson (Yale)
"Mapping class groups of Heegard splittings"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thadeus, J. Ross)
Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton)
"Gromov-Witten theory and Noether-Lefschetz theory"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Delia Schwartz-Perlov (Tufts)
"A pocket-based measure of the multiverse"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Lenny Ng (Duke and Princeton)
"Transverse knots and Heegaard Floer homology"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.