Upcoming Events

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
Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Alireza GolsefidyPrinceton University
Lattices with small covolume
Please check the seminar’s web site for a possible date change for this talk.

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Continuous Optimization Seminar
Adrian LewisCornell University
Alternating projections revisited

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
Logic Seminar
Sasha RubinUniversity of Auckland
Decidable extensions of the Monadic second-order theory of (Nat, <) by unary predicates

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Ciprian CrainiceanuJohns Hopkins University
Multilevel functional principal component analysis
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
David ChelidzeUniversity of Rhode Island
Diagnosis and prognosis of machines and humans
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Friday, October 12, 2007

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Nikolai DimitrovCornell University
Multifold cycles of polynomial foliations in the complex plane

2:15 PM
Malott 406
Lie Groups Seminar
Susana SalamancaNew Mexico State University
On the omega-regular unitary dual of the metaplectic group

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, October 15, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Robert StrichartzCornell University
“Quantum mechanics” on fractals

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
What is forcing?

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Aftab PandeCornell University
Hida families and the Gouvea-Mazur conjectures I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Vinod VaikuntanathanMIT
The unreasonable effectiveness of lattices in cryptography

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Richard DurrettCornell University
Waiting for k mutations

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Math Club
Madhusudhan Venkadesan and Alexander VladimirskyCornell University
Mathematical models: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Refreshments in the lounge before the talk.

4:30 PM
Malott 253
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
Topological finiteness and edge counting

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Logic Seminar
Pavel SemukhinCornell University
ACA_0

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Uzy HadadHebrew University
Uniform Kazhdan constant for some families of linear groups

2:55 PM
Malott 310D
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
Socles of Buchsbaum modules

3:00 PM
Malott 253
ORIE Colloquium
Peter GlynnStanford University
Numerical schemes for stimulating SDEs under the total variation norm
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Christopher CunninghamCornell University
Constructing (and playing) a field of games
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Logic Seminar
Sasha RubinUniversity of Auckland
A survey of automatic structures

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Continuous Optimization Seminar
Stefan WildCornell University
Geometry of data points: a speed bump for the greedy optimizer

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
TAM Seminar
Arun ShuklaUniversity of Rhode Island
Experimental results on dynamic fracture and shock loading response of novel materials
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Oliver Club
Justin MooreCornell University
A five element basis for the uncountable linear orders
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406