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 seminars

Tow Lecture in Finance: Stuart Vincent Craig

Friday, April 11, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Stuart Vincent Craig is an Assistant Professor in the Risk & Insurance Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Matt Billett

Friday, April 18, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Matt Billett is a Professor of Finance at Indiana University.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Richard Thakor

Friday, May 2, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Richard Thakor is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Minnesota.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Benjamin Golez

Friday, May 9, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building
Benjamin Golez is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing.

Past seminars

Tow Lecture in Finance: Ping Liu

Friday, February 21, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Ping Liu is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Purdue University.
Canceled

Tow Lecture in Finance: Tony Zhang

Friday, February 14, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Tony Zhang is a Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve Board.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Riccardo Sabbatucci

Friday, February 7, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Riccardo Sabbatucci is a Visiting Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.

Finance Clarence TOW Seminar Series - Kimberly Cornaggia

Friday, December 6, 2024 9:00am to 10:20am
Pappajohn Business Building
Kimberly Cornaggia is a Professor of Finance at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University.

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 5Tom Rietz
March 12Petra Sinagl
April 2Hsiang-hung Tien
April 9Umang Khetan
April 16Cameron Ellis
April 23Meghan Esson
April 30John Lewis
May 7Maris Jensen