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Monday, March 24, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Pierre GermainNew York University
Global existence for non-linear dispersive equations: space and frequency resonances

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Oliver Club
Robert GhristUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sheaves and sensors
Refreshments at 2:15 PM in the lounge.

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Richard DurrettCornell University
Coexistence in stochastic spatial models

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Eitan BachmatBen-Gurion University
Disk scheduling, airplane boarding, and the universe

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Menger’s theorem for countable graphs in Pi_1^1-CA_0 (continued)

2:55 PM
Malott 224
ORIE Colloquium
Ger KooleVU University Amsterdam
Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Ishmael BachyCornell University
General symbolic dynamics
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
M&AE Departmental Colloquia
Robert GhristUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Curvature and coordination in robotics
Refreshments served in Upson Lounge at 4:15 PM.

4:30 PM
Kimball B11
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Phil LongGoogle
Martingale boosting
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Peter DearCornell University
Mechanics as a theory of everything: Newton, Maxwell, and intelligibility
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Open coloring axiom, the continuum, and \aleph_2 (part I)

2:55 PM
Malott 224
Oliver Club
Noam ElkiesHarvard University
Recent progress on sphere packing
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, March 28, 2008

Number Theory Seminar
Noam ElkiesHarvard University
Elliptical curves of large rank

12:15 PM
Malott 253
Financial Engineering Seminar
Thorsten SchmidtUniversity of Leipzig
Pricing and hedging of credit derivatives via nonlinear filtering

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Christian KuehnCornell University
The FitzHugh-Nagumo equation as a fast-slow system

2:15 PM
Malott 406
Lie Groups Seminar
Alexei OblomokovPrinceton University
A Lie-theoretic construction of spherical symplectic reflection algebras

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Dorit S. HochbaumUniversity of California at Berkeley
Efficient cut-based image segmentation techniques
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, March 31, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University
Solution of the Dirichlet problem in book

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Sourav ChatterjeeUniversity of California at Berkeley
A different approach to strong embeddings

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Alex SlivkinsMicrosoft Research
Multi-armed bandits in metric spaces

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tomoo MatsumuraMax Planck Institute
The stringy cohomology of symmetric product of an orbifold

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Michael StillmanCornell University
Green’s conjecture

2:00 PM
Malott 420C
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Open coloring axiom, the continuum, and \aleph_2 (part II)

2:55 PM
Malott 224
ORIE Colloquium
Ton DiekerIBM
On the stationary measure of a reflected Brownian motion in a wedge: some explicit results
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Timothy GoldbergCornell University
What is a connection, and what is it good for?
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Sonja GrevenJohns Hopkins University
On inference for random effects variances and mixed model penalized splines
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Mark ShattuckCity College of New York
Shaken, not stirred: granular equilibrium
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Logic Seminar
Menachem KojmanBen Gurion University of the Negev
Extensions of Ramsey’s theorem

2:55 PM
Malott 224
Oliver Club
Timothy RileyUniversity of Bristol
Hydra groups
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, April 4, 2008

Lie Groups Seminar
Tyakal VenkataramanaTata Institute of Fundamental Research and Cornell University
Lefschetz type results for certain hyperbolic manifolds

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Jonathan FarleyCaltech
Toward a mathematical theory of counterterrorism: building the perfect terrorist cell
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
TAM Seminar
Richard JamesUniversity of Minnesota
Lessons on structure from the structure of viruses
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205