Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Upcoming Events

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Please visit the Math Department Events Calendar for current event information.

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
Monday, March 6, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Jean SteinerNew York University
Hide-and-seek and spectral invariants on surfaces and Markov chains

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Alvaro Lozano-RobledoCornell University
Kummer-type criteria, part III: the punchline

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Achilleas SinefakopoulosCornell University
Borel ideals

3:10 PM
Malott 251
Probability Seminar
Ted CoxSyracuse University
Renomalization of a stochastic Lotka-Voleterra model the two-dimensional case

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Logic Seminar
Marat ArslanovKazan State University and Cornell University
Completeness criteria for strong reducibilities

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
William A. MasseyPrinceton University
Fluid and diffusion approximations for transient sojourn times of processor sharing queues with time dependent rates
Refreshments: 258 Rhodes Hall, 3:45 PM

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Melanie Pivarski and Kristin CamengaCornell University
Mathematical cousins
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Logic Seminar
Mia MinnesCornell University
Selection, separation and reduction

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Continuous Optimization Seminar
Adrian LewisCornell University
Semi-algebraic techniques in optimization

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Kristin CamengaCornell University
Complexes with alternating angle sums half the Euler characteristic

4:15 PM
Malott 205
Information Science Colloquium
Andrew OdlyzkoUniversity of Minnesota
High-tech bubbles, technology diffusion, and how to prepare for techno-mania

4:15 PM
Kroch Library 2B48
TAM Seminar
Tom MullinUniversity of Manchester
Transition to turbulence in a pipe
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, March 9, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Zoran SunikTexas A&M University
Hanoi towers, Schreier graphs, iterated monodromy groups and Julia sets

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Oliver Club
Andrew OdlyzkoUniversity of Minnesota
Zeros of the Riemann zeta function: computations and implications
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM in the lounge.

4:15 PM
Malott 253
Friday, March 10, 2006

Financial Engineering Seminar
Wolfgang HardleHumboldt University at Berlin
GHADA and GHICA: two tools for risk management

12:15 PM
Hollister 162
TAM Seminar
Luca DeseriUniversity of Molise, Italy
A phenomological approach to the energetics of liposomes
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

2:00 PM
Thurston 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Alimjon EshmatovCornell University
Lie group valued moment maps

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Mihai SirbuColumbia University
On the two-times differentiability of the value functions in the problem of optimal investment in incomplete markets

3:30 PM
Malott 253
CAM Colloquium
Rich KerswellBristol
Progress in Reynolds' problem: transition to turbulence in a pipe
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Special Lecture
Koichi TateishiKobe College, Japan
Origami and modules

4:30 PM
Rockefeller 374