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 Brown Bag Seminar in Finance: Foti Grigoris

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Foti Grigoris is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Tippie College of Business.

Clarence Tow Lecture in Finance: Manuel Adelino

Friday, September 29, 2023 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Manuel Adelino is a Professor of Finance at Duke University.

Clarence Tow Brown Bag Seminar in Finance: Richard Peter

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Richard Peter is a TriStar Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at the Tippie College of Business.

Clarence Tow Lecture in Finance: Tatyana Deryugina

Friday, September 22, 2023 9:00am to 10:20am
Pappajohn Business Building

Tatyana Deryugina is an Associate Professor of Finance and Shebik Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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