Upcoming Events

Monday, September 24, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Camil MuscaluCornell University
Rooted trees, AKNS systems, and Fourier analysis

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University
What is a Dirichlet form?

2:45 PM
406 Malott Hall
Probability Seminar
Mark KelbertUniversity of Swansea
Large-time behavior of a branching diffusion on a hyperbolic space

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Atri RudraUniversity of Buffalo
Recovering data in presence of malicious errors

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Number Theory Seminar
Adrian VasiuBinghamton University
Surjectivity of p-adic Galois representations, part II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
Complexity of countable combinatorics II

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Brad ForrestCornell University
Degree subcomplexes of Auter space

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
Jiamou LiuUniversity of Auckland and Cornell University
RCA_0

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Greg MullerCornell University
Computational aspects of the theory of D-modules

3:00 PM
Malott 253
Statistics Seminar
Keisuke HiranoUniversity of Arizona
Adaptive design of multiple stage experiments using the propensity score
Joint Economics/Statistics Seminar.

4:00 PM
Uris 498
Messenger Lecture Series
Michel BalinskiÉcole Polytechnique, Paris
How to apportion fairly: Aristotle, the Talmud, the U.S. Congress, and kidney transplants
The first in a series of three lectures about Representing, Electing, and Ranking

4:45 PM
Rockefeller Schwartz Aud.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Linear orders and the club filter I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Yingxing LiCornell University
On the asymptotics of penalized splines
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Paul SteenCornell University
Dynamics of volume-scavenging droplet systems: toward wet reversible super-adhesion
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Messenger Lecture Series
Michel BalinskiÉcole Polytechnique, Paris
How to elect and to rank: Overcoming the paradoxes of social choice, electing a President of France, and ranking wines
The second in a series of three lectures about Representing, Electing, and Ranking

7:30 PM
Rockefeller Schwartz Aud.
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Messenger Lecture Series
Michel BalinskiÉcole Polytechnique, Paris
How to eliminate gerrymandering: A new approach to representation, its realization in Zürich, and its application to the U.S. Congress
The third in a series of three lectures about Representing, Electing, and Ranking

4:45 PM
Rockefeller Schwartz Aud.
Friday, September 28, 2007

Financial Engineering Seminar
Torsten SchönebornQP Lab and the Technical University of Berlin
Dynamic optimal execution strategies and predatory trading in illiquid markets

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Kieval Lecture
Richard HamiltonColumbia University
The past and future of geometric flows
Join us at 2:30 PM in 532 Malott Hall for refreshments before the talk.

3:00 PM
Malott 228
Monday, October 1, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Sema SalurUniversity of Rochester
Manifolds with special holonomy

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Dan SheldonCornell University
Manipulation-resistant reputations using hitting time

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Number Theory Seminar
Alvaro Lozano-RobledoCornell University
Ranks of abelian varieties over infinite extensions of the rationals (and a conjecture of Larsen)

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Sungchul LeeYonsei University and Cornell University
Rates of convergence of means of Euclidean functionals

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Jay SchweigCornell University
h-vectors of matroid complexes

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Laurent BartholdiÉcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Amenable groups and algebras

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
Pavel SemukhinCornell University
ACA_0

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Sangjib KimCornell University
Standard monomial theory for Grassmannians

3:00 PM
Malott 253
Statistics Seminar
Per MyklandUniversity of Chicago
Inference for continuous semimartingales observed at high frequency: a general approach
Joint Economics/Statistics Seminar.

4:00 PM
Rockefeller 102
ORIE Colloquium
Jan RosinskyUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville
Simulation of Levy processes: an overview and current issues
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Oliver Club
Laurent BartholdiÉcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Insanely twisted rabbits
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge. The Oliver Club is switching days with the Olivetti Club this week.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Linear orders and the club filter II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Hua LiangUniversity of Rochester
Variable selection in semi-parametric regression modeling
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Ganesh SubbarayanPurdue University
A compositional modeling strategy for hierarchical synthesis
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, October 4, 2007

Olivetti Club
Timothy GoldbergCornell University
A little taste of symplectic geometry
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge. The Olivetti Club is switching days with the Oliver Club this week.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 5, 2007

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Robyn MillerCornell University
A theorem of Ratner and horocyclic flows

2:15 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Michael ShelleyNew York University
Dynamics and transport of complex fluids
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655