Upcoming Events

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
Friday, February 11, 2005

CAM Colloquium
Michael E. HendersonIBM Watson Research Center
Computing invariant manifolds by covering them with fat trajectories
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, February 14, 2005

Analysis Seminar
John HubbardCornell University
Chirka's proof of Slodkowski's theorem and applications to Teichmuller theory

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Roland RoederCornell University
Bumpy tubes and tori — linking in the basins of attraction for Newton's method

4:00 PM
Malott 253
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Mohammad Taghi HajiaghayiMIT
Fast algorithms for hard graph problems: bidimenationality, minors, and (local) treewidth

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Educational Mathematics Seminar
Daina TaiminaCornell University
Mathematical way of thinking — When is it creative?

4:00 PM
Malott 224
Probability Seminar
Sharad GoelCornell University
Mixing times for top to bottom shuffles

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Kevin WortmanCornell University
An infinite solvable group with small quasi-isometry group

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Barbara CsimaCornell University
Computability results used in differential geometry

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Sarah Koch, Michael O'Connor, Jonathan Needleman, et. alCornell University
A potpourri of fun mathematical proofs
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
ORIE Colloquium
Tom LuoUniversity of Minnesota
Probabilistic analysis of SDP relaxation for binary quadratic minimization with application to wireless communication
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Logic Seminar
Barbara CsimaCornell University
The NW ordering in c.e. sets

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Franco SaliolaCornell University
Face algebras of hyperplane arrangements, lattice cohomology and quivers

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Richard WeaverUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mesoscopic waves and residual coherence with ultrasound
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Kristin Camenga, David Biddle, and Sharad GoelCornell University
Ideas for teaching a freshman writing seminar in math

5:15 PM
Malott 207