Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Upcoming Events

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Financial Engineering Seminar
Pauline BarrieuLondon School of Economics
Pricing, hedging and optimally designing derivatives via minimization of risk measures

1:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Oliver Club
Terence TaoUCLA
Long arithmetic progressions in the primes
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
D. R. Fulkerson Lecture Series
Paul ZipkinDuke University
Analysis and comparison of queues with different levels of delay information; Part II: Comparison and conflict
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:20 PM
Thurston 205
Friday, October 21, 2005

Financial Engineering Seminar
Peter BankColumbia University
Models for illiquid financial markets

12:15 PM
Hollister 162
CAM Colloquium
Jerzy WasniewskiTechnical University of Denmark
New data storage formats for dense matrices lead to variety of high-performance algorithms (solving dense linear systems of equations)
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Wai Ling YeeUniversity of Alberta
Signatures of invariant Hermitian forms

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, October 24, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Christoph ThieleUCLA
Carleson's theorem and applications to scattering and ergodic theory

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Shankar SenCornell University
On some aspects of Galois representations

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Robert DevaneyBoston University
McMullen domains and their environs

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Raazesh SainudiinCornell University
A randomized enclosure algorithm: Moore rejection sampling

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
John HubbardCornell University
Brauer-Severi varieties and the Brauer group

4:10 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Mikhail ErshovYale University and IAS
Finite presentations of pro-p groups and Lie algebras

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Jeffrey MerminCornell University
Rational functions

2:40 PM
Warren 232
Logic Seminar
Pavel SemukhinCornell University
Decidable prime models, part 2

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Garrett van RyzinColumbia University
Can capacity shortages be profitable?
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Timothy GoldbergCornell University
The Lie bracket and the commutator of flows
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Logic Seminar
Jiamou LiuUniversity of Auckland and Cornell University
Parity games

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Drew ArmstrongCornell University
Partial orders on Coxeter groups

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Dionisios MargetisMIT
Continuum approach to crystal surface morphological evolution
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, October 27, 2005

Oliver Club
Alexander VarchenkoUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The (gl_n,gl_k)-duality and critical points of master functions
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

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

CAM Colloquium
Mark NewmanUniversity of Michigan
Density-equalizing maps (or Who really won the presidential election?)
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Alexander VarchenkoUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The flag variety structure of solutions to the Bethe ansatz equations

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, October 31, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Mauro MaggioniYale University
Diffusion wavelets for multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Alina CojocaruPrinceton University
Effective versions of Serre's theorem for elliptic curves

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Xavier BuffUniversité Paul Sabatier
Quadratic Julia sets with postive area

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Educational Mathematics Seminar
Kristin CamengaCornell University
A classification of secondary mathematics writing tasks

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Probability Seminar
Kazumasa KuwadaKyoto University and Cornell University
Large deviations for random currents induced from stochastic line integrals

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Alex SlivkinsCornell University
Oscillations with TCP-like flow control in networks of queues

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Mauricio VelascoCornell University
Mori's bend-and-break lemmas

4:10 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Matthew HorakTrinity College
Group actions on order trees

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Steven SinnottCornell University
Dimension theory

2:40 PM
Warren 232
Logic Seminar
Pavel SemukhinCornell University
Decidable saturated models

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Xavier BuffUniversité Paul Sabatier
Julia sets of polynomials with positive measure
Note unusual day. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
ORIE Colloquium
Maxim SviridenkoIBM T.J. Watson Research Center
On the approximability of the job shop scheduling problem
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

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

Statistics Seminar
Greg WarnesPfizer Global Research and Development
Efficient and adaptive MCMC by coupling multiple samplers
Refreshments are served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Walker WhiteCornell University
What's next? Models of time event systems

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Franco SaliolaCornell University
Left regular bands in combinatorics

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Jim SethnaCornell University
Walls formed by bending: grain boundaries and cell walls from continuum plasticity
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Jonathan Needleman and Matthew NoonanCornell University
The overall structure of calculus

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

Oliver Club
Jonathan WeitsmanUniversity of California at Santa Cruz
Measures on Banach manifolds and supersymmetric quantum field theory
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406