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.

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Past lectures

Tow Lecture in Finance: Tong Liu

Friday, April 4, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Tong Liu is the Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Jiekun Huang

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Jiekun Huang is a Professor of Finance and PhD Director and Vernon Zimmerman Faculty Fellow.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Parinitha Sastry

Friday, March 14, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Parinitha Sastry is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Andrea Vedolin

Friday, February 28, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Andrea is a Professor of Finance at Boston 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