Upcoming Events

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Logic Seminar
Diana OjedaCornell University
The distortion problem, part I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Jeffrey RosenthalUniversity of Toronto
Adapting metropolis and Gibbs samplers

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
Teaching Seminar
Voula CollinsCornell University
Promoting class participation in a calculus classroom

5:25 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Oliver Club
Misha GekhtmanUniversity of Notre Dame
Discrete integrable systems and cluster algebras
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, October 14, 2011

Lie Groups Seminar
Misha GekhtmanUniversity of Notre Dame
Belavin-Drinfeld classification and cluster structures on simple Lie groups

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Working Group on Kleinian Groups
Hyungryul BaikCornell University
Boundary groups of QF

3:30 PM
Malott 203
CAM Colloquium
David KempeUniversity of Southern California
Subset selection for linear regression
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, October 17, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
David Bindel and Rajit ManoharCornell University
Efficient floating point: software and hardware
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Robert HaslhoferETH Zurich
Singularities in 4d Ricci flow

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Laura EscobarCornell University
Symmetric functions II

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Shahar DobzinskiCornell University
(Approximating) optimal auctions with correlated bidders

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Rolf WaeberCornell University
A bisection approach to stochastic root-finding

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Christian ZickertUniversity of Maryland
Parametrizing representations of 3-manifold groups

1:30 PM
Malott 203
ORIE Colloquium
Sheldon JacobsonUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Balance optimization subset selection (BOSS): an alternative approach for casual inference with observational data
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Jenna RajchgotCornell University
Compatibly split subvarieties of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Diana OjedaCornell University
The distortion problem, part II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Karen Bandeen-RocheJohns Hopkins University
Multi-stage latent class regression with accommodation for differential item functioning

4:15 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University
What is a random walk?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Friday, October 21, 2011

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Jon ChaikaUniversity of Chicago
Ergodicity and skew products of interval exchange transformations

2:25 PM
Malott 205
Working Group on Kleinian Groups
James WestCornell University
A backgrounder on the Hausdorff metric on the closed subsets of compact metric spaces

3:30 PM
Malott 203
CAM Colloquium
Eli ShlizermanUniversity of Washington at Seattle
Activity measure evolution equations: dimension reduction for networks of neurons
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, October 24, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Carmeliza NavascaClarkson University
Algorithms for tensor decomposition
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Benjamin DodsonUniversity of California at Berkeley
Global well-posedness and scattering for the L^2-critical, nonlinear Schrodinger equation

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Anna BertigerCornell University
Symmetric functions III

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Zhen-Qing ChenUniversity of Washington
Brownian motion with darning and its application to conformal mappings

4:00 PM
Malott 406