Upcoming Events

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Graham LeuschkeSyracuse University
Factoring the adjoint and maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Laura deMarcoUniversity of Chicago
Iteration at the boundary
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, September 24, 2004

Lie Groups Seminar
Alessandra PantanoCornell University
Signatures of intertwining operators and Weyl group representations II

3:00 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Peter Sheridan DoddsColumbia University
A generalized model of social and biological contagion
Refreshments at 4:45 PM in Rhodes 657.

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

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Monday, September 27, 2004

Analysis Seminar
Chris HeilGeorgia Tech
Redundancy in infinite dimensions

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Educational Mathematics Seminar
Maria TerrellCornell University
Good questions for deeper learning of mathematics

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Dynamical Systems Seminar
John GuckenheimerCornell University
Henon-like maps from relaxation oscillations

4:00 PM
Malott 253
Probability Seminar
Wendelin WernerOrsay
Loop-soups and conformal field theory

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Jeffrey MerminCornell University
Lexifying ideals

4:15 PM
Malott 206
Math Club
Ravi RamakrishnaCornell University
Fermat's last theorem - 1653 to 1994
There will be refreshments in the lounge before the talk.

5:00 PM
Malott 207
Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Jason BehrstockColumbia University
Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group and Teichmüller space

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Michael O'ConnorCornell University
The geometry of strongly minimal sets III

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Baruch SchieberIBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Online QoS buffer management
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 655
Olivetti Club
Michael O'ConnorCornell University
Playing games on the real line
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Adrian Diaconu
Moments of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Logic Seminar
Christopher HardinCornell University
Pi-1-1 comprehension III

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Greg KuperbergUniversity of California at Davis and Cornell University
Numerical cubature from geometry and coding theory

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Eva TardosCornell University
Network games and the price of anarchy or stability
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, September 30, 2004

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Sara FaridiUniversity of Ottawa (Canada)
Sequentially Cohen-Macauley rings (joint meeting with the Workshop on Resolutions)

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Wendelin WernerUniversité Paris - Sud
Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE), Brownian loop soups, and universality
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 1, 2004

Financial Engineering Seminar
Mark FisherFederal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Weak convergence in asset pricing and the doubling strategy

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Kevin WortmanCornell University
Finiteness properties of arithmetic groups over function fields

3:00 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Robert J. VanderbeiPrinceton University
Using modern optimization tools to solve problems in mechanics and optics
Refreshments at 4:45 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:45 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, October 4, 2004

Analysis Seminar
Xiaochun LiInstitute for Advanced Study
Hilbert transforms along vector fields

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Paul JungCornell University
Adding edges to the contact process

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Roland RoederCornell University
Homoclinic tangles in tokamaks (nuclear fusion reactors) and heat spirals on the tokamak wall

4:00 PM
Malott 253
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Anirban DasguptaCornell University
Spectral analysis for random graphs with skewed degree distributions

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Educational Mathematics Seminar
Florence FassanelliAAAS
The relation between the history of art and history of mathematics for pedagogical purposes

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tara BrendleCornell University
Commensurations of the Johnson kernel

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Barbara CsimaCornell University
Bounding homogeneous models I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Huseyin TopalogluCornell University
Incorporating pricing decisions into the stochastic dynamic fleet management problem
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 655
Olivetti Club
Gregory MullerCornell University
Penrose tilings and other aperiodic tilings
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Henri JohnstonCornell University
Failure of normal integral bases

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Logic Seminar
Antonio MontalbanCornell University
The minimum beta-model of Pi-1-1 CA

4:00 PM
Malott 206
TAM Seminar
Shawn WilczynskiCargill Salt Mine, Lansing
Cargill Deicing Technology presents - overview of operations at the Cayuga mne
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
William HarrisCornell University
Teaching colleges and teaching statements

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 7, 2004

Oliver Club
Dirk van DalenUniversiteit Utrecht
The problems and principles of the basic intuitionistic notions
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406