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Department of Mathematics

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Please visit the Math Department Events Calendar for current event information.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Ilijas FarahYork University
Nonseparable uniformly hereditarily finite algebras

1:30 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Anne ThomasCornell University
What is a building?

2:45 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Romyar SharifiMcMaster University
Cup products and modular symbols

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Dexter KozenCornell University
Title TBA

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Jean-Marc SchlenkerUniversity of Ottawa
Higher Schläfli formulas

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tara HolmCornell University
Introduction to symplectic geometry

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
James WorthingtonCornell University
A solution to the L-space problem III

2:55 PM
Malott 224
ORIE Colloquium
Michael CarterUniversity of Toronto
Operations research in health care or Who let the engineer into the hospital?
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Saúl BlancoCornell University
Some computational and combinatorial aspects of Coxeter groups
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Annette MolinaroYale School of Public Health
Piecewise constant estimation algorithms for predicting clinical outcomes: applications in genomic data
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Suvranu DeRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Some advances in digital surgery
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Logic Seminar
Michael O’ConnorCornell University
The logic of toposes and smooth infinitesimal analysis

2:55 PM
Malott 224
Lie Groups Seminar
David RenardEcole Polytechnique
Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for unitary representations
Note unusual day, time, and location.

3:00 PM
Malott 310D
Financial Engineering Seminar
Delia CoculescuETH Zurich
Credit risk modeling, no arbitrage and imperfect information

4:00 PM
Rhodes 253
Oliver Club
Ilijas FarahYork University
Rigidity of quotient structures
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, May 2, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Ashkan NikeghbaliUniversity of Zurich
A classification of random times with financial models in view

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Oliver Club
Peter OzsváthColumbia University
Heegaard diagrams and Holomorphic disks
This is also the opening talk of the Topology Festival.

4:30 PM
Malott 253
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Topology Festival
Katrin WehrheimMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Workshop: Introduction to Floer theory for Lagrangian submanifolds

9:00 AM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Ian LearyOhio State University
Infinite Smith groups

10:15 AM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Rebecca GoldinGeorge Mason University
Equivariant cohomology in symplectic geometry

11:30 AM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Hansjörg GeigesUniversity of Cologne
Workshop: Contact 3-manifolds and geometric topology

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Viktor GinzburgUniversity of California at Santa Cruz
Leaf-wise coisotropic intersections

3:45 PM
Malott 406
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Topology Festival
Richard KenyonBrown University
The configuration space of branched polymers

9:00 AM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Kaoru OnoHokkaido University
Floer theory for Lagrangian submanifolds

10:30 AM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Katrin WehrheimMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Construction of topological invariants via decomposition and representation in a symplectic category

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, May 5, 2008

Topology Festival
Hansjörg GeigesUniversity of Cologne
Contact Dehn surgery

9:00 AM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Andrew DancerOxford University
Symplectic versus hyperkahler geometry

10:15 AM
Malott 406
Topology Festival
Shmuel WeinbergerUniversity of Chicago
Manifolds whose universal covers have finite type

11:30 AM
Malott 406
Analysis Seminar
Albert ChauUniversity of British Columbia
Kahler Ricci flow and the structure of negatively curved complete Kahler manifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Vlada LimicMarseille
The Lambda-coalescent speed of coming down from infinity

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

ORIE Colloquium
Andrew GoldbergMicrosoft Research
Reach for A*: an efficient point-to-point shortest path algorithm
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Friday, May 9, 2008

Number Theory Seminar
Jason MartinJames Madison University
Parallel implementations of basic arithmetic

3:00 PM
Malott 206