Physics Colloquium:
Mark Raizen (UT, Austin)
"Experiments with a "Particle in a Box": Bose Einstein condensates, and Maxwell's demon"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M.Weinstein)
Lam Hui (Columbia, Physics)
"An introduction to string theory"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

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.

Colloquium: ( M. Khovanov and E. Urban)
David Ben-Zvi (UT, Austin)
"Langlands duality, loop spaces and representations of real groups"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 1

Special Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Diego Krapf (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology)
"Solid-state nanopores as single molecule sensors"
9:30 a.m., 210 Mudd,  APAM Conference Room

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

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Zuoliang Hou
"Equivariant cohomology and holomophic invariant"
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)
Luc Illusie  (IAS & Université Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay)
"On some recent work of Gabber in Etale cohomology"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 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, MARCH 2

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Eric Urban
"Stabilization and endoscopy I"
10:00 a.m.-11:30am., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Yoav Moriah  (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
"Genericity issues for high distance Heegaard splittings"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Ofer Zeitouni (Minnesota)
"Random walks in random environments:
   Ergodic properties, homogenization, and counter examples"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Alex Bene (USC)
"Canonical lifts of the Johnson homomorphisms to the Torelli groupoid"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Brendan Hassett  (Rice)
"Density of integral points over function fields"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Piyush Kumar (Michigan, MCTP)
TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Richard Thomas (Imperial and Columbia)
"Simultaneous resolutions, mirror symmetry, braid groups, etc. "
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.