Physics Colloquium:
Hal Evans (Indiana)
"Latest news on Bs mixing from D0"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Harish Bhat (Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, CU)
"Waves in discrete electronic lattices""
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Bernd Scherer (Deutsche Bank)
"What Does Robust Optimization Offer?"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Ivan Smith (Cambridge)
"Morse meets Stein"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
Mark Haskins (Imperial)
"Gluing constructions for special Lagrangian cones"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
David Hayes  (Amherst)
"The 2-divisibility of h_p+"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
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)
Alexey Surkov (Deloitte) TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Juan Gonzalez-Meneses (Titular de Escuela Universitaria)
"The conjugacy problem in braid groups and Garside groups"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Dorothy Buck (Imperial)
"Applications of Dehn surgery to DNA-rearranging reactions"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.