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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
Monday, October 3, 2005

Analysis Seminar
Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University
Lie groups with property RD

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Henri JohnstonCornell University
Galois module structure of rings of integers

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Yulij IlyashenkoCornell University
Topological properties of polynomial foliations

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Retsef LeviIBM Research and MIT Sloan School
Provably near-optima dual-balancing policies for lost-sales models

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Paul JungCornell University
The contact process on non-amenable graphs

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Jason BehrstockUniversity of Utah
Relative hyperbolicity and the mapping class group

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Steven SinnottCornell University
Gröbner bases

2:40 PM
Warren 232
Olivetti Club
Greg MullerCornell University
Knots, physics, and the Jones polynomial
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
ORIE Colloquium
Shane HendersonCornell University
Performance measures for service systems with an uncertain arrival rate
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Logic Seminar
Sasha RubinAuckland University
S1S with extended predicates

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Helge TverbergUniversity of Bergen
Glimpses of an ongoing long story, starting with Radon's theorem

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Arend L. SchwabDelft University of Technology
Bicycle dynamics
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Kristin CamengaCornell University
Using good questions

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 6, 2005

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Richard EhrenborgUniversity of Kentucky
Counting pattern avoiding permutations via integral operators
Note special date/time/room.

2:30 PM
Malott 420C
Oliver Club
Eknath GhateTata Institute and Cornell University
Modular endomorphism algebras
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406