Upcoming Events

Monday, March 31, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University
Solution of the Dirichlet problem in book

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Sourav ChatterjeeUniversity of California at Berkeley
A different approach to strong embeddings

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Alex SlivkinsMicrosoft Research
Multi-armed bandits in metric spaces

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tomoo MatsumuraMax Planck Institute
The stringy cohomology of symmetric product of an orbifold

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Michael StillmanCornell University
Green’s conjecture

2:00 PM
Malott 420C
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Open coloring axiom, the continuum, and \aleph_2 (part II)

2:55 PM
Malott 224
ORIE Colloquium
Ton DiekerIBM
On the stationary measure of a reflected Brownian motion in a wedge: some explicit results
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Timothy GoldbergCornell University
What is a connection, and what is it good for?
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Sonja GrevenJohns Hopkins University
On inference for random effects variances and mixed model penalized splines
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Mark ShattuckCity College of New York
Shaken, not stirred: granular equilibrium
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Logic Seminar
Menachem KojmanBen Gurion University of the Negev
Extensions of Ramsey’s theorem

2:55 PM
Malott 224
Oliver Club
Timothy RileyUniversity of Bristol
Hydra groups
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, April 4, 2008

Lie Groups Seminar
Tyakal VenkataramanaTata Institute of Fundamental Research and Cornell University
Lefschetz type results for certain hyperbolic manifolds

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Jonathan FarleyCaltech
Toward a mathematical theory of counterterrorism: building the perfect terrorist cell
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
TAM Seminar
Richard JamesUniversity of Minnesota
Lessons on structure from the structure of viruses
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Monday, April 7, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Carlo AcerbiAbax Bank
A new coherent formalism to account for liquidity risk

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Analysis Seminar
Ovidiu SavinColumbia University
On Monge - Ampère equations with homogeneous right hand side

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
David McDonaldUniversity of Ottawa
Sharp asymptotics for the probability a network overloads

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Eran NevoCornell University
A characterization of simplicial polytopes with $\g_2=1$

4:15 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Bronlyn WassinkBinghamton University
Finite-index subgroups of Thompson’s group F

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Jen BiermannCornell University
Minimal Betti numbers of monomial ideals

2:00 PM
Malott 420C
Logic Seminar
Mingzhong CaiCornell University
Strong minimal covers and Yates’ question

2:55 PM
Malott 224
ORIE Colloquium
Michel EmeryUniversity of Strasbourg
Elementary spectral properties of some tensors
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Corinne SheridanCornell University
Factorization is fun (but not necessarily easy)
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Continuous Optimization Seminar
Spyridon SchismenosCornell University
Low-rank approximations in optimization problems

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
TAM Seminar
Huajian GaoBrown University
Nanomechanics of biological systems: bridging single molecule and continuum mechanics descriptions of cell adhesion
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Logic Seminar
Michael O’ConnorCornell University
Diego’s theorem

2:55 PM
Malott 224
Financial Engineering Seminar
Dennis TalayINRIA
Control of liquidity risk in the Cetin-Jarrow-Protter liquidity model

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
Oliver Club
Bruce KleinerYale University
A new proof of Gromov’s theorem on groups of polynomial growth
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge. (This is a joint analysis and geometry seminar with Rochester.)

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, April 11, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Feng RongSyracuse University
Siegel cylinders and parabolic curves

2:15 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Yannis G. KevrekidisPrinceton University
Equation-free modeling and computation for complex systems
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Statistics Seminar
Ron ButlerSouthern Methodist University
The juice of life: survival models as transient current flow in electrical networks
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

3:30 PM
Malott 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Jonathan NeedlemanCornell University
The orbit method in Branching laws of representations

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, April 14, 2008

Computer Science Theory Seminar
Amin SaberiStanford University
An algorithmic approach to fair division
Please note the time and location change.

11:00 AM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Sudeb MitraQueens College of CUNY
Some extensions of holomorphic motions

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Louis BilleraCornell University
The complete cd-index of a Bruhat interval

3:00 PM
Malott 205
Public Lecture - A. D. White Professor at Large
David AldousUniversity of California at Berkeley
The ten top things that math probability tells you about the real world
There will be a reception after the lecture in the 5th floor lounge.

4:30 PM
Malott 228 (Bache Aud.)