Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Upcoming Events

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
Friday, November 4, 2005

Lie Groups Seminar
Jonathan WeitsmanUniversity of California at Santa Cruz
Measures on Banach manifolds, random surfaces, and nonperturbative string theory

10:10 AM
Malott 206
Financial Engineering Seminar
Henrik HultCornell University
Heavy-tailed insurance portfolios: buffer capital and ruin probabilities

12:15 PM
Hollister 162
CAM Colloquium
Ian MitchellUniversity of British Columbia
Some algorithms, software and applications of Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Statistics Seminar
William E. StrawdermanRutgers University
Frequentist coverage of Bayes credible regions
Please note change of time and place. Refreshments are served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Monday, November 7, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Gady KozmaInstitute for Advanced Study
Analytic uniqueness theory

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Madhusudhan VenkadesanCornell University
Dexterous manipulation in humans: characterizing a noisy dynamical system

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Zoya Svitkina
TBA

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Gady KozmaInstitute for Advanced Study
The scaling limit of loop-erased random walk in three dimensions

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Mauricio VelascoCornell University
Fano varieties are covered by rational curves

4:10 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Marc LackenbyOxford University
Counting covering spaces and subgroups in dimension 3

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Zachary ScherrCornell University
Projective space

2:40 PM
Warren 232
Logic Seminar
Mia MinnesCornell University
Ash-Nerode theorem

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Eugene FeinbergSUNY at Stony Brook
Optimality of deterministic policies for certain stochastic systems with multiple criteria and constraints
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Peter SamuelsonCornell University
What non-positive curvature means to me
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

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

Logic Seminar
Walker WhiteCornell University
What's next? Models of time event systems, part 2

4:00 PM
Malott 206
TAM Seminar
Wilkins AquinoCornell University
Computational intelligence and inverse material identification: biomedical engineering, structural damage detection, and other applications
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

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

Oliver Club
Michael YampolskyUniversity of Toronto
Computability and computational complexity of Julia sets
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 11, 2005

Probability Seminar
Julien DubedatCourant Institute
Commutation of Schramm-Loewner evolutions
Please note unusual date and time.

11:15 AM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
David RohrlichBoston University
Root numbers
Please note unusual date.

2:30 PM
Malott 206
CAM Colloquium
Joseph RosenblattUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Something from nothing - how zeros can determine structure
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655