Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Physics Conference (in honor of Len Gross)
Michael RoecknerUniversity of Bielefeld
Fokker Planck equations on Hilbert spaces

9:00 AM
Rhodes 655
Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Physics Conference (in honor of Len Gross)
H.-H. KuoLouisiana State University
An extension of the Ito stochastic integration

10:30 AM
Rhodes 655
Fluid Dynamics Seminar
Charles PeskinNew York University and Cornell A. D. White Professor-at Large
Cardiac fluid mechanics and electrophysiology by the immersed boundary method
Pizza is served at noon.

12:15 PM
Rhodes 178
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Eduardo Martinez PedrozaMcMaster University
Separation of quasiconvex subgroups

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Forcing no big chains in the power set of the reals, part I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Gena SamorodnitskyCornell University
Do financial returns have finite or infinite variance? a paradox and an explanation
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Alex FokCornell University
The fundamental theorem of algebra revisited
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Charles PeskinNew York University and Cornell A.D. White Professor-at-Large
Generalizations of the immersed boundary method: nonuniform density and viscosity, fibers with bend and twist, and microscale fluid-structure interaction with Brownian motion

1:25 PM
Upson 5130
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Ri-Xiang ChenCornell University
Macaulay’s theorem for some projective monomial curves

4:00 PM
Malott 207
Statistics Seminar
Ana-Maria StaicuNorth Carolina State University
Spatially correlated multilevel functional data
Refreshments will be served in 301 Malott Hall after the seminar.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Forcing no big chains in the power set of the reals, part II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Chelluri Lecture
Joe GallianUniversity of Minnesota
Using mathematics to create symmetry patterns
A reception will be held in 532 Malott Hall following the lecture.

4:25 PM
Malott 251
Friday, April 16, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Charles PeskinNew York University and Cornell A. D. White Professor-at Large
Synchrony vs. asynchrony in discrete-state stochastic neuronal networks

2:15 PM
Malott 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Ivan LosevMIT
Irreducible finite dimensional representations of W-algebras

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Steven G. JohnsonMIT
When PML isn’t P: limitations of absorbing layers for modeling wave equations
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Mathematics Awareness Month Public Lecture
Allen KnutsonCornell University
The mathematics of juggling
Please join us outside the auditorium at 2:15 PM for refreshments after the talk.

1:00 PM
Malott 228
Monday, April 19, 2010

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Padma RaghavanPennsylvania State University
Energy-aware scalability of parallel sparse scientific computing
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Marcelo AguiarTexas A&M University and Cornell University
Coxeter Hopf monoids

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Mihai StoiciuWilliams College
Random matrices with Poisson eigenvalue statistics

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Yaron SingerUniversity of California at Berkeley
Budget feasible mechanisms

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Assaf NaorNew York University
Dvoretzky’s theorem in metric spaces

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Ajay RamadossCornell University
t-structures in triangulated categories, part IV

5:00 PM
Malott 203
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Owen BakerCornell University
The Jacobian map on outer space

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Menachem MagidorHebrew University, Jerusalem
Forcing axioms and squares

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Yves SprumontUniversity of Montreal
An axiomatization of the serial cost-sharing method
Refreshments at 2:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

3:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Eyvindur PalssonCornell University
The water wave problem
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Gwyneth WhieldonCornell University
Enumerating spanning trees and other graph invariants

4:00 PM
Malott 207
Statistics Seminar
Giles HookerCornell University
Robust and efficient analysis of non-stationary data via disparities
Refreshments will be served in 301 Malott Hall after the seminar.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Tomoo MatsumuraCornell University
What is (1+1)-dimensional TQFT?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Oliver Club
Menachem MagidorHebrew University, Jerusalem
Some reflections on the continuum hypothesis
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, April 23, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Mary-Lou ZeemanBowdoin College and Cornell University
Elementary climate models, Milankovich forcing and glacial cycles

2:15 PM
Malott 253
Cayuga Triangle Probability Seminar
Srinivasa VaradhanNew York University
Central limit theorems revisited

3:30 PM
Malott 253
Cayuga Triangle Probability Seminar
Amir DemboStanford University
Statistical mechanics on sparse random graphs

5:00 PM
Malott 253
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Cayuga Triangle Probability Seminar
Ted CoxSyracuse University
Limit theorems for voter model perturbations

9:30 AM
Malott 406
Cayuga Triangle Probability Seminar
Sourav ChatterjeeUniversity of California at Berkeley and New York University
The missing log in large deviations for subgraph counts

11:00 AM
Malott 406
Monday, April 26, 2010

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Orly AlterUniversity of Texas at Austin
Discovery of mechanisms from mathematical modeling of DNA microarray data
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
Bialgebras and automata

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Jiaping WangUniversity of Minnesota
Ends of locally symmetric spaces

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Pedro FelzenszwalbUniversity of Chicago and Cornell University
Metric labeling with tree-metrics

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Alexander FriberghNew York University
The speed of a biased random walk on a percolation cluster

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Richard ValeCornell University
Theories of algebraic localization

5:00 PM
Malott 203
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Keith JonesBinghamton University
Connectivity properties for groups acting on locally finite trees

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Thomas KernCornell University
Classification of countably categorical linear orderings (part I)

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Anders NielsenCornell University
Failure recovery via RESTART: wallclock models
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Andrew MarshallCornell University
Categories for the unemployed mathematician
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406