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Monday, September 19, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Brett WickVanderbilt University
Bounded analytic projections and the Corona problem

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Sarah KochCornell University
Moving in herds: critical points of the Hénon map

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Ralph GreenbergUniversity of Washington
The structure of some modules occurring in number theory

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Paat RusmevichientongCornell University
A linear programming-based approximation algorithm for multi-product pricing under a discrete choice model of product differentiation

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
David WhiteCornell University
Processes with inert drift

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Damiano TestaCornell University
Irreducibility of some mapping spaces

4:10 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Financial Engineering Seminar
Michael KupperETHZ/Princeton
TBA

12:15 PM
Hollister 162
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
f-vectors and manifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Michael O'ConnorCornell University
Effective omitting types theorems

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Jon KleinbergCornell University
Approximation algorithms for the disjoint paths problem
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Joshua BowmanCornell University
Translation with a capital T, and that rhymes with B, and that stands for billiards!
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Logic Seminar
Mia MinnesCornell University
Weighted finite-state transducers and applications to speech recognition

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Bridget TennerMIT
Reduced decompositions and permutation patterns

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Richard RandCornell University
Three short talks on nonlinear dynamics
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Louis Billera, Kenneth Brown, Kariane Calta, Sarah Day, Stephen Hilbert, Luke RogersCornell University and Ithaca College
Applying for postdocs and teaching jobs

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Mauricio VelascoCornell University
Does every minimal monomial free resolution admit a cellular structure?

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Christiane RousseauUniversity of Montreal
The root extraction problem for a germ of holomorphic diffeomorphism f : (C,0) -> (C,0)
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, September 23, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Christiane RousseauUniversity of Montreal
The finiteness part of Hilbert's 16th problem for quadratic vector fields

1:00 PM
Malott 310D
CAM Colloquium
Z. Jane WangCornell University
Efficiency of flight: flapping wing vs. fixed wing
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
George WilsonOxford University and Cornell University
Mad subalgebras of rings of differential operators on curves

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, September 26, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Robert StrichartzCornell University
Spectral properties of Laplacians on Euclidean domains and fractals

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Zin AraiKyoto University
On the hyperbolicity of the real and complex Hénon map

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Eknath GhateTata Institute and Cornell University
On the local behavior or ordinary Galois representations

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Josh RushtonCornell University
A Chung-type functional LIL for alpha-stable processes, and related invariance results

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Craig JohnsonMarywood & Cornell University
A computer search for free actions on orientable surfaces

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Zachary ScherrCornell University
Monomial orderings and Grobner bases

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

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Matthew NoonanCornell University
Dividing by small numbers
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
ORIE Colloquium
Stefan WeberCornell University
Shortfall risk measures and utility maximization under model uncertainty
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Logic Seminar
Sasha RubinAuckland University
Automata-theoretic approach to verification: introduction

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Louis BilleraCornell University
Identities on ribbon Schur functions and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Benjamin DavidovitchHarvard University
Shear banding in complex fluids: hints form colloidal crystals
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Oliver Club
Dan EdidinUniversity of Missouri at Columbia
Grassmanians, frames, and signal reconstruction
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, September 30, 2005

Financial Engineering Seminar
Sasha StoikovNew York University
Pricing options from the point of view of a trader

12:15 PM
Hollister 162
Lie Groups Seminar
Dan EdidinUniversity of Missouri at Columbia
Non-abelian localization in equivariant K-theory

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
John DennisRice University
Optimal placement of tsunami warning buoys
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655