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Monday, February 12, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Elizabeth MeckesAmerican Institute of Mathematics and Cornell University
Distributions of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Ravi RamakrishnaCornell University
What is a Galois representation?

2:45 PM
406 Malott Hall
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Gunnar FloystadUniversity of Bergen and Cornell University
Koszul duality and the BZG-correspondence (part 1)

3:30 PM
Malott 203
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Sid SuriUniversity of Pennsylvania
The effect of network topology on equilibria in markets and evolutionary games

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Anja SturmUniversity of Delaware
Voter models with heterozygosity selection

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Logic Seminar
Michael O’ConnorCornell University
Game semantics

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Jonathan NeedlemanCornell University
Grassmanians and varieties
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Statistics Seminar
Thomas S. RichardsonUniversity of Washington
A singularity-free approach to learning the structure of ‘Bayesian’ networks with hidden variables
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Gerritt HuberMIT
Miniscule forces of no little importance
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Edoardo CartaCornell University
Case studies

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Friday, February 16, 2007

CAM Colloquium
Eric WeissteinWolfram Research, Inc.
MathWorld: Communicating mathematics on the Internet
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, February 19, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Todd KempMIT
Heat kernel dimension in global analysis and free probability

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
What is a shelling?

2:45 PM
406 Malott Hall
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Gunnar FloystadUniversity of Bergen and Cornell University
Koszul duality and the BZG-corresondence (part 2)

3:30 PM
Malott 203
Probability Seminar
Mark MeckesCase Western Reserve and Cornell University
Random matrices and geometric functional analysis

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Robert KleinbergCornell University
Title TBA

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Andrew PutnamUniversity of Chicago
An infinite presentation of the Torelli group

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
Michael O’ConnorCornell University
Game semantics II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Victor KostyukCornell University
The happy end problem
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Financial Engineering Seminar
Eric ReinerUnion Bank of Switzerland
Perspectives on firm-wide risk aggregation and economic capital
Broadcast from NYC (55 Broad Street, Manhattan)

5:45 PM
Ives 109
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Statistics Seminar
Jean OpsomerIowa State University
Endogenous post-stratification in surveys
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
Proof systems for first order logic

4:00 PM
Malott 206
TAM Seminar
Zoran PopovicUniversity of Washington
Towards a generative model of animal locomotion
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Statistics Seminar
Mary MeyerUniversity of Georgia
Shape-restricted regression splines: some theory and applications
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in 1181 Comstock Hall.

4:00 PM
Comstock B108
Oliver Club
Gerhard MichlerCornell University
Constructing finite simple groups from irreducible subgroups of GL_n(2)
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, February 23, 2007

Lie Groups Seminar
Ivan LosevMoscow State University and Rutgers University
A uniqueness property for smooth affine spherical varieties

3:30 PM
Malott 406