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Monday, November 20, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Zhiqin LuUniversity of California at Irvine
On the Chern classes of CY moduli

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Stephen MillerRutgers University
Analytic continuation of automorphic L-functions

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Elan PavlovMIT
Mechanisms for a spatially distributed market

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Jason SchweinsbergUniversity of California, San Diego
Mutation patterns in populations with large family sizes

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

TAM Seminar
Astronaut Charles J. CamaradaNASA
The innovative ideas used to develop the thermal protection system (TPS) repair strategies for return to flight of the Space Shuttle following the Columbia accident
Note unusual day, time, and place.

1:25 PM
Hollister 162
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Collin BleakBinghamton University and Cornell University
Structure theorems for groups of homeomorphisms of the circle

1:30 PM
Malott 207
ORIE Colloquium
Gennady SamorodnitskyCornell University
Scaling limits for workload process and Palm calculus
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Matthew NoonanCornell University
A soapy guide to geometry
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Monday, November 27, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Mark MeckesCase Western Reserve and Cornell University
The geometry of logarithmically concave functions

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Philip ProtterCornell University
Completeness and incompleteness of markets through the lens of option prices

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Endre BorosRutgers University
On a preprocessing technique for quadratic binary optimization

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Educational Mathematics Seminar
Aaron WeinbergIthaca College
How your students use their textbook

4:40 PM
Malott 203
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Dan FarleyMiami University
The action of Thompson's group F on a CAT(0) boundary

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
Bjørn Kjos-HanssenCornell University
Perfect forcing

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Jeannette SongDuke University
Lead times, allocation rules, and the value of component commonality
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Chris LipaCornell University
Title TBA
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Logic Seminar
Bjørn Kjos-HanssenCornell University
Minimal hyperdegrees

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Ileana StreinuSmith College
Enumerating planar minimally rigid graphs

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Diego BerziPolitecnico di Milano
Simple constitutive models applied to debris flows
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
David HendersonCornell University
Conceptual Math 111: discussing a new approach to teaching Calc I
David Henderson will be joined by various current MATH 111 instructors.

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Oliver Club
Vadim KaloshinCalifornia Institute of Technology
Nonlocal instability for the planar 3-body problem
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, December 1, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Vadim KaloshinCalifornia Institute of Technology
An example of Arnold diffusion for a nearly integrable Hamiltonian on 3-torus
Time and place will be announced in the web bulletin.

12:01 PM
Financial Engineering Seminar
Tim MountCornell University
Exploitable markets: deregulating the electric utility

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
CAM Colloquium
Katya ScheinbergIBM
Developing provably converging and practical methods in derivative free optimization
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655