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Monday, November 5, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Marius MitreaUniversity of Missouri, Columbia
What makes a domain a ball? The interplay between the analysis and geometry of Euclidean domains

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Allen HatcherCornell University
What is a configuration space?

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Ravi RamakrishnaCornell University
Counting congruences of modular forms

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Souvik GhoshCornell University
The effect of memory on moving average processes

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

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Allen KnutsonUniversity of California, San Diego
Schubert calculus and geometric shifting: combinatorics meets combinatorics, via geometry

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
WKL_0

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Eran NevoCornell University
Around the g-conjecture

3:00 PM
Malott 253
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Caspar SchwabeKurashiki University of Science and Art
Kinematic models for the performing arts?

3:30 PM
MT 228 (Bache Aud.)
Olivetti Club
Joshua BowmanCornell University
Klein’s quartic, ‘tis of thee, sweet curve of genus 3, of thee I sing
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Logic Seminar
Nicholas HayCornell University
A mathematical definition of artificial intelligence

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Continuous Optimization Seminar
Eric FriedmanCornell University
Finding a simple polytope from its graph: connections to linear programming complexity

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
Statistics Seminar
John EvansBoston Scientific
Statistical issues in medical device clinical trials
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Bruce LewensteinCornell University
Imagination in science
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

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

Oliver Club
Marius MitreaUniversity of Missouri, Columbia
Singular integral operators and boundary value problems under sharp geometric measure theoretic assumptions
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

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

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Andrei NegutPrinceton University
Attractors with large invisible parts

2:15 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Jan S. HesthavenBrown University
Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the modeling of free surface flows using high-order Boussinesq approximations
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Richard ValeCornell University
The almost-semisimple Ariki-Koike algebra

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, November 12, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Xiaoyi ZhangInstitute for Advanced Study
Global well posedness and scattering for mass critical NLS

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Alvaro Lozano-RobledoCornell University
What is an elliptic curve?

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Sebastien RochUniversity of California at Berkeley
Cascade processes in networks: on a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos
Jessica Zuniga’s talk has been moved to November 26.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Ravi RamakrishnaCornell University
Counting congruences of modular forms II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Tal RabinIBM Research
Information-theoretically secure protocols and security under composition

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Bogdan PetrenkoSUNY Brockport
Some formulas for the smallest number of generators for finite direct sums of matrix algebras

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
WKL_0, part II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Richard ValeCornell University
Cherednik algebras and the construction of Gordon-Stafford

3:00 PM
Malott 253
ORIE Colloquium
Andrzej RuszczynskiRutgers University
Introduction to risk-averse optimization
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Chris LipaCornell University
What monodromy means to me
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

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

Statistics Seminar
Nicholas KieferCornell University
Default estimation and expert information
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Slawomir SoleckiUniversity of Illinois at Urbana
G_delta ideals of compact sets

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Continuous Optimization Seminar
Dennis LeventhalCornell University
Randomization methods in smooth optimization: “derivative-light” methods

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
TAM Seminar
Michiel van de PanneUniversity of British Columbia
A simple controller for mechanically consistent animation of human walking and running
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tony BahriRider University
Piecewise polynomials and the equivariant cohomology of weighted projective spaces

1:30 PM
Malott 251
Oliver Club
Slawomir SoleckiUniversity of Illinois at Urbana
Concentration of measure, Ramsey theory, geometric tomography, and dynamics of L_0
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 16, 2007

Lie Groups Seminar
Pavle PandzicUniversity of Zagreb and Cornell University
Dirac operators and unitary representations

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Jonathan BorweinDalhousie University
High performance mathematics and its management
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655