The Clarence Tow Lectures in Finance

High-profile researchers from finance present at Tippie to an audience of faculty, PhD students, and researchers from around the University of Iowa. Join us for the next lecture in our series.

Upcoming lectures

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Finance: Christoph Herpfer

Friday, December 5, 2025 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Christoph Herpfer is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

Past lectures

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Finance: Gerard Hoberg

Friday, November 14, 2025 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Gerard Hoberg is the Charles E. Cook Community Bank Professor of Finance at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Finance: Giulio Trigilia

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Giulio Trigilia is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Rochester's Simon Business School.

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Finance: Stefan Zeume

Friday, October 31, 2025 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Stefan Zeume is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Finance: Andreas Neuhierl

Friday, October 24, 2025 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Andy Neuhierl is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University.

Fall 2025: External Seminar Series

DateSpeaker
September 12, 2025Sugata Ray (University of Alabama)
September 19, 2025Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School)
October 3, 2025Pari Sastry (Wharton)
October 10, 2025David Bates Memorial Conference
October 31, 2025Stefan Zeume (UIUC)
November 5, 2025Giulio Trigilia (University of Rochester)
November 14, 2025Gerald Hoberg (University of Sourther California)
December 5, 2025Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia)

Fall 2025: Internal Brown Bag Seminar Series

DateSpeaker
October 8, 2025Cameron Ellis
October 15, 2025Siegfried Anyomi
October 22, 2025Yitao Zhong
October 29, 2025Runyu Zhang
November 5, 2025Jiajie Xu
November 12, 2025Ziyang Jia
November 19, 2025Meghan Esson
December 3, 2025Petra Sinagl
December 10, 2025Haocheng Xu

Spring 2025: External Seminar Series

DATE

SPEAKER

February 7

Riccardo Sabbatucci

Wharton

February 14

Tony Zhang

Federal Reserve Board

February 21

Ping Liu

Purdue University

February 28

Andrea Vedolin

Boston University

March 14

Parinitha Sastry

Columbia University

March 26

Jiekun Huang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 4

Tong Liu

MIT

April 11

Stuart Vincent Craig

UW-Madison

April 18

Matt Billett

Indiana University

May 2

Richard Thakor

University of Minnesota

May 9

Benjamin Golez

University of Notre Dame

Spring 2025: Internal Brown Bag Seminar Series

DATE

SPEAKER

January 24Anand Vijh
March 7Tom Rietz
March 12Petra Sinagl
April 2Hsiang-hung Tien
April 9Umang Khetan
April 16Cameron Ellis
April 23Meghan Esson
April 30John Lewis
May 7Maris Jensen

Past seminars