Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Upcoming Events

Monday, September 29, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Artem PulemotovCornell University
The Li-Yau-Hamilton estimate and the Yang-Mills heat equation

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Gyula PapCornell University
Algorithms for multiflows

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Daniel RemenikCornell University
Chaos in a spatial epidemic model

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chaos seminar series
The second in a 12-week series on chaos, consisting of 24 lectures that Prof. Steve Strogatz filmed with the Teaching Company. Each week we will watch two 30-minute lectures. The lectures are elementary and aimed at a general audience.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Andy FrohmaderCornell University
Clique vectors of graphs

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Ruth CharneyBrandeis University
Automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Equivalence relations arising in ergodic theory and analysis

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Dawn WoodardCornell University
Spatial inference of nitrate concentrations in groundwater
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Marisa BelkCornell University
Matroid prime: binary spherical quotients
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Logic Seminar
Jiamou LiuUniversity of Auckland and Cornell University
Computable categoricity of graphs with finite component

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Hod LipsonCornell University
Mining experimental data for dynamical invariants - from cognitive robotics to computational biology
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
George KhachatryanCornell University
An introduction to A-infinity algebras IV

4:30 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Gang BaoGeorgia Technical Institute
Engineering molecular probes for gene detection in living cells
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Number Theory Seminar
Aftab PandeCornell University
Infinitely ramified Galois representations, part I

4:30 PM
Malott 224
Teaching Seminar
Irena PeevaCornell University
Panel discussion: How to get jobs after graduating
The focus will be on things that students graduating in one or two years can do now to get jobs later.

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Ravi MazumdarUniversity of Waterloo
Multidimensional diffusions with state dependent reflections: boundary behavior and stability

11:40 AM
Rhodes 253
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Establishing extreme amenability via Ramsey theory

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Irena PeevaCornell University
Hilbert functions
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 3, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Melvin LeokPurdue University
Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theory

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Greg MullerCornell University
Lie algebroids and morita equivalence

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Lauren MeyersUniversity of Texas at Austin
Network perspectives on epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, October 6, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Treven WallSyracuse University
The sharp A_p constant for weights in a reverse Hölder class

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Yevgeniy DodisNew York University
Deniable authentication on the internet

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Anita WinterFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Geometry of spaces of trees and the tree-valued diffusion arising from the Aldous move on cladograms

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chaos seminar series
The third in a 12-week series on chaos, consisting of 24 lectures that Prof. Steve Strogatz filmed with the Teaching Company. Each week we will watch two 30-minute lectures. The lectures are elementary and aimed at a general audience.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Comparing the complexity of equivalence relations

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Matthew NoonanCornell University
Title TBA
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Cum-Hui ZhangRutgers University
Penalized linear unbiased selection
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Proving Ramsey theorems via extreme amenability

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Number Theory Seminar
Aftab PandeCornell University
Infinitely ramified Galois representations, part II

4:30 PM
Malott 224
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Tomoo MatsumuraCornell University
Introduction to orbifolds and differentiable stacks

4:30 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
John W. M. BushMassachusetts Institute of Technology
The fluid trampoline: droplets bouncing on a soap film
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Special Seminar on School Mathematics
Robert Moses and David HendersonCornell University
Algebra Project’s new NSF-sponsored Cohorts Project
Free pizza and light refreshments!

5:00 PM
Malott 228
What Is... Seminar
James WestCornell University
What is a wild embedding?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Gerardo Hernandez-del-ValleColumbia University
On the Brennan-Schwartz process, self-similar PDEs and the density of averaged geometric Brownian motion

11:40 AM
Rhodes 253
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Jennifer BiermannCornell University
Revlex ideals

1:20 PM
Malott 251
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Gabriela SchmithüsenUniversität Karlsruhe (TH)
Origamis in outer space

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Christian RosendalUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
A new proof of Gowers’ block Ramsey Theorem

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Christian RosendalUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Descriptive set theory and the classification of separable Banach spaces
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 10, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Gabriela SchmithüsenUniversität Karlsruhe (TH)
Veech groups of a family of infinite translation surfaces

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Victor ProtsakCornell University
Small representations and Dirac cohomology

3:30 PM
Malott 406