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Monday, March 5, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Masha GordinaUniversity of Connecticut
Heat kernel measures and Riemannian geometry on infinite-dimensional curved spaces

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Gunnar FloystadUniversity of Bergen and Cornell University
Koszul duality and the BZG-correspondence (part 4)

3:30 PM
Malott 203
Probability Seminar
Sebastien BlachereEurandom
Asymptotic properties of the Green distance on discrete groups

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
James ParkinsonCornell University
The affine Grassmannian and alcove walks

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
Minimal honest polynomial-time degrees and P=NP (II)

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Youssef El Fassy FihryCornell University
Feynman diagrams
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Financial Engineering Seminar
Robert JarrowCornell University
Asset price bubbles in incomplete markets
Broadcast from NYC (55 Broad Street, Manhattan).

5:45 PM
Ives 109
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Computer Science Theory Seminar
Maria PolukarovTechnion
Congestion games with load-dependent failures: identical resources

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Logic Seminar
Michael O’ConnorCornell University
Herbrand’s theorem

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Morten NielsenCornell University
Likelihood inference for a fractional autoregressive model
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
I. SabitovMoscow State University
Some results on infinitesimal and continuous rigidity of surfaces and polyhedra

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Peter Varkonyi and Gabor DomokosPrinceton Univ. and Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics
Equilibria of rigid bodies: from monostatic objects to optimal turtles
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, March 8, 2007

Oliver Club
Elizabeth CherryCornell University
Nonlinear dynamics in the heart: modeling, simulating, and visualizing arrhythmias
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, March 9, 2007

Financial Engineering Seminar
William AndersonCornell University
The potential approach to the term structure of interest rates and bond pricing

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
CAM Colloquium
Eitan TadmorUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Edge detection and hierarchical decompositions
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, March 12, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Dan Andrei GebaUniversity of Rochester
Quadratic nonlinear wave equations

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Kenneth BrownCornell University
What is a Coxeter group?

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 5)

3:30 PM
Malott 203
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Hoang TuyVietnamese Academy of Science and Technology
Minimax theorems: existence and stability of the saddle point
Optimization Seminar

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
Probability Seminar
Lea PopovicCornell University
Some degenerate diffusions arising from the study of gene duplication

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Math Club
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Sync: The emerging science of spontaneous order
Refreshments in the lounge before the talk.

4:30 PM
Malott 253
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Seonhee LimNotre Dame University
Volume entropy of hyperbolic buildings

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
The intractability of resolution

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Logic Seminar
David MartinCornell University
Intuitionistic and linear logic

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Thomas S. RichardsonUniversity of Washington
Ironing out the wrinkles: 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
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Megan OwenCornell University
Computing the distance between phylogenetic trees

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Yogesh PotdarGeneral Electric Research Center
Challenges in x-ray diffraction measurements of residual stresses
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in Thurston 206.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Teaching Seminar
Edoardo Carta and Denise TerryCornell University
Case studies

5:15 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Alexander UshakovStevens Institute of Technology
Algorithmic problems in the Baumslag-Gersten group

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Number Theory Seminar
Ryota MatsuuraBoston University
Root numbers of elliptic curves

1:30 PM
Malott 310D
Friday, March 16, 2007

Lie Groups Seminar
T. N. VenkataramanaTata Institute
Jordan decomposition in lattices and quasi-unipotence of monodromy

3:30 PM
Malott 406