Upcoming Events

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Statistics Seminar
Francesca MolinariCornell University
Asymptotic properties for a class of partially identified models
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Splitting Medvedev and Muchnik degrees II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Robert ConnellyCornell University
Packing of ellipses and ellipsoids - a model for granular material

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Carl HopkinsCornell University
Electrical communication in fish: the neural basis for temporal encoding of social communication signals
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Jim ConantUniversity of Tennessee
Ornate necklaces and the homology of the genus of one mapping class group

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Oliver Club
Valery LuntsIndiana University
Simple nonholonomic modules over the Weyl algebra
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 13, 2006

Category Theory Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
Coinduction and automata

10:30 AM
Malott 420C
Financial Engineering Seminar
Robert WolpertDuke University
Bayesian semiparametric space-time models

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
CAM Colloquium
Amin SaberiStanford University
Complex networks: an algorithmic perspective
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Matthias FranzMax Planck Institute
Exact cohomology sequences for torus actions

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, October 16, 2006

Analysis Seminar
Yilong NiUniversity of Oklahoma
Curvature flows on S^1

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Benjamin LundellCornell University
Tate’s thesis

3:00 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Marek BiskupUCLA
Harmonic embedding and random walk on infinite percolation cluster

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Chris BischofRWTH Aachen University
Opportunities for computer science in computational science

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Jason ManningSUNY at Buffalo
A coarse geometric Dehn filling theorem

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Dynamical Systems Seminar
John GuckenheimerCornell University
Mixed mode oscillations and folded nodes

2:50 PM
Ives 219
Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
Inductive definitions

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Ilya MolchanovUniversity of Bern and Cornell University
Convex geometry, stability, and extreme values
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Jessica ZunigaCornell University
Analysis of shuffles
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Financial Engineering Seminar
Jim GatheralMerrill Lynch
Real-time volatility estimation under zero intelligence
Broadcast from New York City.

5:30 PM
Hollister 162
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Statistics Seminar
Victor ChernozhukovMIT
Quantile curves without crossing
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Tom ZaslavskyBinghamton University
Topological hyperplanes

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Daniel BideauUniversity of Rennes
Granular compaction
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Jonathan NeedlemanCornell University
Case studies in teaching

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Logic Seminar
Justin MooreBoise State University
A solution to the L space problem
Note unusual day, time, and place.

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Justin MooreBoise State University
A solution to the L space problem

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Oliver Club
Takashi KimuraBoston University
Stringy invariants of manifolds with group actions
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 20, 2006

Lie Groups Seminar
Takashi KimuraBoston University
Equivariant topological quantum field theory, stringy K-theory, and the Chern character

3:30 PM
Malott 406