Upcoming Events

Monday, October 23, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Jun KigamiKyoto University
Harmonic Sierpinski gasket — open problems

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Sreekar ShastryTata Institute of Fundamental Research
The Drinfeld modular Jacobian J_1(n) has connected fibers

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Rene CarmonaPrinceton University
HJM: A unified approach to dynamic models for fixed income, credit, and equity markets

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Gabriela SchmithüsenUniversität Karlsruhe (TH) and Cornell University
Veech groups and Teichmüller curves of origamis

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
Michael O’ConnorCornell University
Pi-1-1 singletons

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Diego KlabjanUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Approximate dynamic programming with ridge functions and its application in serial multi-echelon inventory systems with economies of scale
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

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

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Statistics Seminar
Matt BriggsWeill Medical College of Cornell University
Broccoli reduces the risk of splenetic fever!
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Vivian MorleyIthaca, New York
DNC degrees and an injury free solution of Post's problem

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Brigitte ServatiusWorcester Polytechnic Institute
What's new in dimension two?

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Roger FrenchDupont Company
New perspectives on van der Waals-London dispersion interactions of materials: wetting, graded interfaces and carbon nanotubes
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Oliver Club
Serge CantatUniversité de Rennes I and Cornell University
The Tits alternative
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 27, 2006

Category Theory Seminar
David BiddleCornell University
Quillen's Q construction and K theory

10:30 AM
Malott 420C
Financial Engineering Seminar
David NualartKansas University
Hedging and portfolio optimization in a Levy market model

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Jean-Pierre LabesseUniversité d’Aix-Marseille II
A simple form of the trace formula and applications

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Scott WilliamsonCornell University
Numerical analysis as a tool for statistical inference in population genetics
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, October 30, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Giorgio ManticaUniversità degli Studi dell’Insubria
Fourier-Bessel functions and their many asymptotics

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Elizabeth MeckesAmerican Institute of Mathematics and Cornell University
An infinitesimal version of Stein's method of exchangeable pairs

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Elliot AnshelevichRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Strategic network formation through peering and service agreements

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Math Club
Robert ConnellyCornell University
Sudoku and geometry
Refreshments before the talk in the lounge.

5:00 PM
Malott 253
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Peter SamuelsonCornell University
On CAT(0) structures for free-by-cyclic groups

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
Michael O’ConnorCornell University
Measure theoretic uniformity and basis theorems

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
John TsitsiklisMIT
Queueing and delay in bin-packing and other stochastic combinatorial problems
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Jonathan NeedlemanCornell University
One idea — three costumes
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Logic Seminar
Vivian MorleyIthaca, New York
Kucera's injury free construction of incomparable r.e. degrees and the Kucera-Gacs theorem

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Brian D. MarxLouisiana State University
Multidimensional penalized signal regression
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Stephan KoehlerEmory University
Swimming in a granular medium
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Doris SchattschneiderMoravian College
Escher's combinatorial patterns and their aftermath

4:40 PM
Malott 253
Teaching Seminar
David BockCornell University
Service and outreach opportunities, or How to have fun and beef up your CV
Dave will be joined by an assortment of representatives from various outreach programs (EYH, PFF, Senior Seminar, Math Explorers' Club, etc.)

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 2, 2006

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Steven SinnottCornell University
Algebraic statistics and commutative algebra

12:30 PM
Malott 420C
Oliver Club
Michael GekhtmanUniversity of Notre Dame
Cluster algebras, Poisson structures, and semiconductor nets
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 3, 2006

Financial Engineering Seminar
Michael LipkinKatama Trading, LLC
Sherlock trader, take-over sleuth

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Paul FriedmanUnion College
Langlands parameters and cohomological induction

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Jonathan D. VictorWeill Cornell Medical College
Neural coding and representation of visual information
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 253