Upcoming Events

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Oliver Club
Matvei LibineUniversity of Massachusetts
Localization formulas for integrals of equivariant forms
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, January 28, 2005

Oliver Club / Lie Groups Seminar
Serguei ArkhipovYale University
Towards representation theory of algebraic groups over a 2-dimensional local field
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in the lounge.

3:00 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
John Guckenheimer, Stephen Pope, Christine Shoemaker, Charlie van Loan, Stephen VavasisCornell University
Proposed new graduate minor field in computational science and engineering
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, January 31, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Andrzej HulanickiWroclaw University and Cornell University
Asymptotic for invariant measures for diffusion processes on groups NA/A

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Oliver Club
Elena MantovanUniversity of California at Berkeley
The role of the geometry of Shimura varieties in the Langlands program
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in the lounge.

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Robert ClewleyCornell University
A computational tool for the reduction of nonlinear ODE systems possessing multiple scales

4:00 PM
Malott 253
Probability Seminar
Edward WaymireOregon State University and Cornell University
Heterogeneous dispersion and skew diffusion

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Lisa FleischerIBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Tolls for heterogeneous, selfish users of a multicommodity network and generalized congestion games

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Math Club
Robert Strichartz, Tara Brendle, and Martin KassabovCornell University
Summer research opportunities
There will be refreshments in the lounge before the talk.

5:00 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Oliver Club / Olivetti Club
Gregory HjorthUniversity of California at Los Angeles
An isolation theorem for groups of isometries
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
ORIE Colloquium
Lisa FleischerIBM T.J. Watson Research Center
New algorithms for assignment problems
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Logic Seminar
Greg HjorthUCLA
Borel reducibility

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Rena ZieveUniversity of California at Davis and Cornell University
Packing fractions and stability angles in granular heaps

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Anders AndersenCornell University
Aerodynamics of fluttering and tumbling cards
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Joshua BowmanCornell University
Enlivening the classroom: reducing teachers' and students' stress with humor / Organizational meeting

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, February 3, 2005

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Jason MartinCornell University
Using MAGMA I

11:30 AM
Malott 420C
Oliver Club
Tara HolmUniversity of California at Berkeley
Morse theory in real symplectic geometry
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, February 4, 2005

Oliver Club / Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Dylan ThurstonHarvard University
How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in the lounge.

3:00 PM
Malott 406
Monday, February 7, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Claus KoestlerQueen's University
Non-commutative continuous Bernoulli shifts

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Educational Mathematics Seminar
David BiddleCornell University
An example of using writing and language to describe the 3-dimensional sphere as the union of two solid tori: experiences from teaching a Freshman Writing Seminar in mathematics

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Rica GonenThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Incentive compatible multi-unit combinatorial auctions

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Gregory LawlerCornell University
The lambda-SAW walk

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Jason MartinCornell University
Using MAGMA II

11:30 AM
Malott 420C
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Martin KassabovCornell University
New examples of groups with property tau

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Joseph MillerIndiana University
The initial segment complexity of random reals, part I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Amr FarahatCornell University
Greedy algorithms for maximizing submodular functions over independence systems
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Spencer HamblenCornell University
Lifting Galois representations: variations on a conjecture of Serre
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Logic Seminar
Joseph MillerIndiana University
The initial segment complexity of random reals, part II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Tom ZaslavskySUNY Binghamton
The associative law in multary quasigroups

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Robert GilmourCornell University
Spatiotemporal control of local dynamics in the heart
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, February 10, 2005

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Jason MartinCornell University
Using MAGMA III

11:30 AM
Malott 420C
Oliver Club
Greg KuperbergUniversity of California at Davis and Cornell University
What are perturbative quantum 3-manifold invariants?
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406