Upcoming Events

Friday, February 17, 2006

Financial Engineering Seminar
Jan VecerColumbia University
Trading maximum drawdown and options on maximum drawdown

12:15 PM
Hollister 162
CAM Colloquium
Christine ShoemakerCornell University
Function approximation algorithms for continuous optimization of multi-modal computationally expensive models with applications
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, February 20, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Robert StrichartzCornell University
Energy forms on the Sierpinski gasket

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Alvaro Lozano-RobledoCornell University
Bernoulli numbers, Hurwitz numbers, p-adic L functions and Kummer-type criteria

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Mauricio VelascoCornell University
Minimal monomial ideals

3:10 PM
Malott 251
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Michael StillmanCornell University
Computing sheaf cohomology

4:10 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tom StiadleWells College and Cornell University
Characterizing centers of graphs of groups

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Bryant AdamsCornell University
Basic logic of quantum computation

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Aytac IlhanUniversity of Oxford
Optimal static-dynamic hedges for exotic options
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Treven WallCornell University
Thirteen ways of looking at a Sobolev space
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
Recursive ordinals and Pi-1-1 sets II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Todd KempCornell University
Free cumulants and the lattice of non-crossing partitions

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Jun ZhangNew York University
A free boundary in thermal convection
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, February 23, 2006

Statistics Seminar
Zhihua QiaoUniversity of Pennsylvania
Sparse linear discriminant analysis
Refreshments are served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 253
Friday, February 24, 2006

Financial Engineering Seminar
Thorsten SchmidtLeipzig
Pricing corporate securities under noisy asset information

12:15 PM
Hollister 162
Lie Groups Seminar
Farkhod EshmatovCornell University
Quantized Kleinian singularities and Nakajima quiver varieties

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Jon WilkeningUniversity of California at Berkeley
Shape optimization of swimming sheets
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, February 27, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Luke RogersCornell University
Two proofs of a Borel-type theorem on the Sierpinski gasket

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Alvaro Lozano-RobledoCornell University
Bernoulli numbers, Hurwitz numbers, p-adic L-functions and Kummer-type criteria II

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Michael StillmanCornell University
Computing sheaf cohomology

3:10 PM
Malott 251
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Tandy WarnowUniversity of Texas at Austin
The disk-covering method for phylogenetic tree reconstruction

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Michael StillmanCornell University
Computing sheaf cohomology II

4:10 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tara BrendleLouisiana State University
The Johnson filtration of the mapping class group and Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
William CalhounBloomsburg University
Degrees of monotone complexity

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Jerome MalickINRIA Rhone-Alpes
Best approximation in matrix spaces: numerical algorithms and applications in finance and combinatorics
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Logic Seminar
Mia MinnesCornell University
Hyperarithmetic = Delta-1-1

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Kenneth BrownCornell University
Buildings as metric spaces

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Jair KoillerFundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil, and IMPA
To be or not to be Hamiltonian: nonholonomic systems under time reparametrizations
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, March 2, 2006

Financial Engineering Seminar
Frank RiedelUniversity of Bonn
On irreversible investment

3:00 PM
Rhodes 253
Biological Statistics & Computational Biology Seminar
Ritesh AgrawalWashington University
New insights and tools for analysis of RNA splicing

4:00 PM
Biotech G01
Oliver Club
Freydoon ShahidiPurdue University
Lattice point problems, Galois representations and Langlands functoriality conjecture
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Friday, March 3, 2006

CAM Colloquium
Anne BourliouxUniversity of Montreal
An asymptotic view on flamelet models for turbulent combustion
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Freydoon ShahidiPurdue University
Stability of root numbers with applications to functoriality

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Olivetti Club
Matthew NoonanCornell University
Matt Noonan's magic mystery talk: nonlinear mathematics
Note special day and time. Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in the lounge.

4:30 PM
Malott 251