Upcoming Events

Thursday, November 4, 2004

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Aladar HeppesEötvös University
Helly theorems with line transversals
Time and place will be announced on the website

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Oliver Club
Toby StaffordUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Noncommutative projective geometry
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 5, 2004

Financial Engineering Seminar
Stijn Van NieuwerburghNew York University
Information acquisition and portfolio under-diversification

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Toby StaffordUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Cherednik algebras and Hilbert schemes of points

3:00 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Stephen PopeCornell University
Algorithms for turbulent combustion
Refreshments at 4:45 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:45 PM
Rhodes 655
Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Steven SinnottCornell University
Toric varieties VI

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Monday, November 8, 2004

Analysis Seminar
Joachim KriegerHarvard University
Global regularity of solutions for the Yang-Mills equations on high dimensional Minkowski space

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tatiana KutuzovaMoscow State University
Nonexistence of time averages and nonuniqueness of limit measures

4:00 PM
Malott 253
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Adrian VettaMcGill University
Quality, stability and efficiency issues in competitive games

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Indira ChatterjiCornell University
On a characterization of hyperbolic spaces

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Carl Jockusch, Jr.University of Illinois, Urbana
Computable Ramsey theory and reverse mathematics

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Thaleia ZariphopoulouUniversity of Texas at Austin
Derivative valuation and investment management
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Treven WallCornell University
Have we really solved Laplace's equation?
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Logic Seminar
Michael O'ConnorCornell University
omega models II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Jeffrey MerminCornell University
Toric varieties VII

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Patricia HershMSRI and Indiana University at Bloomington
A GL_n(F_q) analogue of the partition lattice and discrete Morse theory for poset order complexes

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Mason PeckCornell University
Control-moment gyroscopes for joint actuation: a new paradigm in space robotics
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, November 11, 2004

Oliver Club
Rodrigo PerezCornell University
TBA
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 12, 2004

Financial Engineering Seminar
Francis LongstaffUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Asset pricing in illiquid markets

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Farkhod EshmatovCornell University
An example of an A-infinity functor

3:00 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Philip HolmesPrinceton University
Optimal decisions: from neural spikes, through stochastic differential equations to behavior
Refreshments at 4:45 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:45 PM
Rhodes 655
Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Jason MartinCornell University
Schemes for number theorists

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Monday, November 15, 2004

Analysis Seminar
Mao-Pei TsuiColumbia University
Mean curvature flows and isotopy of maps between spheres

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Educational Mathematics Seminar
Sarah ManningNYC
Math difficulties: what we know, what we do not know, and what we can do

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Suzanne HruskaIndiana University
The dynamics of polynomial skew products of C^2

4:00 PM
Malott 253
Probability Seminar
Federico CamiaEURANDOM
The full scaling limit of 2D critical percolation

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Mauricio VelascoCornell University
Generic initial ideals and deformations

4:15 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Aaron HeapUniversity of Rochester
Bordism invariants of the mapping class group

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
Combinatorial principles weaker than Ramsey's theorem I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Robert BlandCornell University
Matroid duality, more or less
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Matthew NoonanCornell University
The geometry of electromagnetism
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Statistics Seminar
Robert LundClemson University
A random walk through climate change
Refreshments will follow the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Michael O'ConnorCornell University
omega models III

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Steven SinnottCornell University
Toric varieties VIII

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
William SchmittGeorge Washington University
The free product of matroids

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chimera states for coupled oscillators
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Lee GibsonCornell University
Instructional technology: where we are, where we are going

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 18, 2004

Oliver Club
Jeff ViaclovskyMIT
Moduli spaces of critical Riemannian metrics in dimension four
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406