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Monday, November 17, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Victor LieUCLA
On Stein’s conjecture on the polynomial Carleson operator

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Christian BenderTechnische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Zu Braunschweig
Time discretization and Markovian iteration for coupled FBSDEs

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Nir AvniHarvard University
The product replacement algorithm in finite and infinite groups

4:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chaos seminar series
The eighth 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 18, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Eugene LermanUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prequantization of orbifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
An anti-classification theorem for ergodic measure preserving transformations, part I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Kavita RamananCarnegie Mellon University
Asymptotic approximations of many-server queues
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Victor KostyukCornell University
A topological menagerie
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Ping LiCornell University
Adaptive base class boost for multi-class classification
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

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

4:00 PM
Malott 206
TAM Seminar
Phaedon-Stelios KoutsourelakisCornell University
A multi-resolution Bayesian approach for the identification of spatially-varying material parameters
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Peter SamuelsonCornell University
Algebra extensions and de Rham cohomology for noncommutative algebras

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Number Theory Seminar
Adrian VasiuBinghamton University
Reconstructing p-divisible groups from their truncations of small level

4:30 PM
Malott 224
What Is... Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
What is reverse mathematics?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Aurélien AlfonsiEcole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
High-order discretization schemes for the CIR process: application to affine term structure and Heston model

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

1:20 PM
Malott 251
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Angela Kubena BarnhillNorthwestern University
Density of commensurators of uniform lattices in right-angled buildings

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Oliver Club
Vladimir PestovUniversity of Ottawa
Infinite-dimensional groups versus locally compact groups: some recent trends
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 21, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Evgeny PoletskySyracuse University
F-holomorphic functions

2:15 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
Kevin ShortUniversity of New Hampshire
Disassembly, repair, and rebuilding of music with mathematics
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Martin HoeferRWTH Aachen University
Concurrent imitation dynamics in congestion games

4:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, November 24, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Joachim KriegerUniversity of Pennsylvania
Multi-soliton solutions for the gravitational nonlinear Hartree equation

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Serge CantatUniversité de Rennes
Dynamics on character varieties: an example, with open questions

2:45 PM
Malott 228
Probability Seminar
Brian RiderUniversity of Colorado
Beta ensembles, random Schroedinger, and diffusion

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Tali KaufmanMIT
Cayley codes with few short generators

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chaos seminar series
The ninth 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
Kyle PetersonUniversity of Michigan
The Steinberg torus

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Logic Seminar
Simon DauguetCornell University
An anti-classification theorem for ergodic measure preserving transformations, part II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Dan StroockMIT
Abstract Wiener space revisited

4:00 PM
Malott 251
ORIE Colloquium
Paat RusmevichientongCornell University
Linearly parameterized bandits
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Saul Blanco RodriguezCornell University
The RSK algorithm
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406