Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

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

Monday, November 3, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Valentino TosattiHarvard University
Kahler-Ricci flow and stability

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Tom AlbertsUniversity of Toronto
Bridge decomposition of restriction measures

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Guy RothblumMIT
Delegating computation: interactive proofs for muggles

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chaos seminar series
The sixth in a 12-week series on chaos, consisting of 24 lectures that Prof. Steve Strogatz filmed with the Teaching Company. Each week we will watch two 30-minute lectures. The lectures are elementary and aimed at a general audience.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Talia FernósUCLA
Property (T) and friends

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Cost, group actions, and equivalence relations

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Peter BaxendaleUniversity of Southern California
Random sources and sinks for stochastic dynamical systems

4:00 PM
Malott 251
ORIE Colloquium
Michael J. FryUniversity of Cincinnati and Cornell University
Election Day 2008: applying operations research to voting systems
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Hannah Newfield-PlunkettCornell University
F, T, V and all that: an introduction to Thompson’s groups
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Logic Seminar
Mingzhong CaiCornell University
The dichotomy theorems for Borel equivalence relations, part II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Ajay RamadossCornell University
Hochschild homology and the Riemann-Roch theorem for DG algebras (part 3 of 4)

4:30 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Noah J. CowanJohns Hopkins University
Mechanics and control of concentric-tube, super-elastic, continuum robots
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
What Is... Seminar
Ravi RamakrishnaCornell University
What is class field theory?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Diane VavrichekBinghamton University
Quasi-isometry invariant commensurizer subgroups

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Mingzhong CaiCornell University
The dichotomy theorems for Borel equivalence relations, part II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Alexander BufetovRice University
Translation flows over Vershik’s automorphisms
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 7, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Alexander BufetovRice University
Suspension flows over Vershik’s automorphisms II
This will be a continuation of Thursday’s Oliver Club.

2:15 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
Andrzej BanaszukUnited Technologies Research Center
Design of robust dynamic networks
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Vladimir BavulaUniversity of Sheffield
Jacobian algebras

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, November 10, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Ignacio Uriarte-TueroMichigan State University
Astala’s conjecture on Hausdorff measure distortion under planar quasiconformal mappings

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Anup RaoInstitute for Advanced Study
Parallel repetition: Theorems and counterexamples

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Sharad GoelYahoo Research
Pricing combinatorial prediction markets

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chaos seminar series
The seventh in a 12-week series on chaos, consisting of 24 lectures that Prof. Steve Strogatz filmed with the Teaching Company. Each week we will watch two 30-minute lectures. The lectures are elementary and aimed at a general audience.

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Laura AndersonBinghamton University and Cornell University
Representation of matroids by homotopy spheres

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Logic Seminar
Martin KassabovCornell University
An application of the cost conjecture, part I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Vivek FariasMIT
Stochastic depletion problems
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Ismael BachyCornell University
Equidistribution
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Jim Ramsay and Alois KneipMcGill University and University of Bonn
Modeling phase variation in functional data
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
The Medvedev lattice, part I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
TAM Seminar
Mont HubbardUniversity of California at Davis
Design of safe ski jump landing surfaces
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Ajay RamadossCornell University
Hochschild homology and the Riemann-Roch theorem for DG algebras (part 4 of 4)

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Number Theory Seminar
Mahesh AgarwalMcMaster University
p-adic L-functions on GSp(4) x GL(2)

4:30 PM
Malott 224
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Paul ThurstonAgamas Capital Management, LP
Mortgage credit models and the housing market crisis

11:40 AM
Rhodes 655
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Michael StillmanCornell University
Intersection rings, and intersection theory of Grassmanians and flag bundles, part I

1:20 PM
Malott 251
Logic Seminar
Martin KassabovCornell University
An application of the cost conjecture, part II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Bruce DriverUniversity of California at San Diego and Cornell University
Spaces of square integrable holomorphic functions
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 14, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Dennis YangCornell University
Existence and smoothness of invariant manifolds for a system of ODEs

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Xiang TangUniversity of Washington (St. Louis)
Rankin-Cohen brackets and formal quantization

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Gail WolkowiczMcMaster University
The Chemostat: A lake in a lab
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655