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Monday, September 3, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Xiaodong CaoCornell University
Cross curvature flow on locally homogeneous 3-manifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Jan RosinskiUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville
Sample path asymptotic bounds for infinitely divisible sequences

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Roland RoederUniversity of Toronto
Computing arithmetic invariants for hyperbolic reflection groups

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Achilleas SinefakopoulosCornell University
Introduction to local cohomology

3:00 PM
Malott 253
ORIE Colloquium
Ulrich HorstUniversity of British Columbia
Adverse selection and risk minimization
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Peter LuthyCornell University
Quasiconformal mappings on the plane — not just an old, generic name
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
The club filter, stationary sets, and countable elementary submodels

4:00 PM
Malott 206
TAM Seminar
Richard HennigCornell University
From alpha to omega C the Martensitic phase transformation in titanium
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Friday, September 7, 2007

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Sarah KochCornell University
A new link between Teichmüller theory and complex dynamics

2:15 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Anna GilbertUniversity of Michigan
(Fast) algorithms for compressed sensing
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Gregg ZuckermanYale University
Locally finite Lie algebras

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Lie Groups Seminar
Victor KacMIT
Quantization and chiralization

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Saturday, September 8, 2007

Sophus Lie Days
Reyer SjamaarCornell University
A quick introduction to Lie groups and Lie algebras

9:30 AM
Malott 406
Sophus Lie Days
G. ZuckermanYale University
Lie algebras of vector fields

11:00 AM
Malott 406
Sophus Lie Days
Dan BarbaschCornell University
E_8 for undergrads

2:00 PM
Malott 406
Sophus Lie Days
Victor KacMIT
Dirac operators with cubic terms

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Sunday, September 9, 2007

Sophus Lie Days
G. ZuckermanYale University
Lie algebras of derivations

10:00 AM
Malott 406
Sophus Lie Days
Victor KacMIT
W-algebras and representation theory

11:30 AM
Malott 406
Monday, September 10, 2007

Analysis Seminar
Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University
The Dirichlet heat kernel in inner uniform domains

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
John HubbardCornell University
What is hyperbolic geometry?

2:45 PM
406 Malott Hall
Probability Seminar
Soumik PalCornell University
Brownian motions interacting through ranks and a phase transition phenomenon

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Bobby KleinbergCornell University
Noisy binary search

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Kurt LuotoUniversity of Washington, Seattle
A matroid-friendly basis for quasisymmetric functions

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Ken BrownCornell University
Automorphisms of buildings have infinite displacement

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
Russell MillerQueens College
Locally computable structures

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Martina KubitzkeMarburg and Cornell University
The multiplicity conjecture

3:00 PM
Malott 253
ORIE Colloquium
Brenda DietrichIBM Research
Business to business services: new opportunities for operations research
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Denise TerryCornell University
Paper beats straight edge: constructing non-constructible things
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Statistics Seminar
Debashis GhoshPenn State University
Kernel machines, mixed effects models, and genome-wide association studies
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Mia MinnesCornell University
Using automata to prove tractability

4:00 PM
Malott 206
TAM Seminar
Rohan AbeyaratneMIT
Thoughts on (a) mechanical engineering education and (b) the motion of material interfaces
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Oliver Club
Madalin GutaUniversity of Nottingham
Statistical theory of quantum information processing
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, September 14, 2007

Financial Engineering Seminar
Reha TütüncüGoldman Sachs
Optimization and quantitative portfolio management

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Gabi SchmithuesenCornell University
Unexpected twins in Outer space and Teichmüller space

2:15 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Xin GuoCornell University
Several mathematical issues in information-based credit risk analysis
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Reyer SjamaarCornell University
Torsion and abelianization in equivariant cohomology

3:30 PM
Malott 406