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

Monday, October 6, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Treven WallSyracuse University
The sharp A_p constant for weights in a reverse Hölder class

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Yevgeniy DodisNew York University
Deniable authentication on the internet

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Anita WinterFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Geometry of spaces of trees and the tree-valued diffusion arising from the Aldous move on cladograms

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Chaos seminar series
The third 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, October 7, 2008

Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Comparing the complexity of equivalence relations

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Matthew NoonanCornell University
Title TBA
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Cum-Hui ZhangRutgers University
Penalized linear unbiased selection
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Proving Ramsey theorems via extreme amenability

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Number Theory Seminar
Aftab PandeCornell University
Infinitely ramified Galois representations, part II

4:30 PM
Malott 224
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Tomoo MatsumuraCornell University
Introduction to orbifolds and differentiable stacks

4:30 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
John W. M. BushMassachusetts Institute of Technology
The fluid trampoline: droplets bouncing on a soap film
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Special Seminar on School Mathematics
Robert Moses and David HendersonCornell University
Algebra Project’s new NSF-sponsored Cohorts Project
Free pizza and light refreshments!

5:00 PM
Malott 228
What Is... Seminar
James WestCornell University
What is a wild embedding?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Gerardo Hernandez-del-ValleColumbia University
On the Brennan-Schwartz process, self-similar PDEs and the density of averaged geometric Brownian motion

11:40 AM
Rhodes 253
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Jennifer BiermannCornell University
Revlex ideals

1:20 PM
Malott 251
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Gabriela SchmithüsenUniversität Karlsruhe (TH)
Origamis in outer space

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Christian RosendalUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
A new proof of Gowers’ block Ramsey Theorem

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Christian RosendalUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Descriptive set theory and the classification of separable Banach spaces
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 10, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Gabriela SchmithüsenUniversität Karlsruhe (TH)
Veech groups of a family of infinite translation surfaces

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Victor ProtsakCornell University
Small representations and Dirac cohomology

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Logic Seminar
Barbara CsimaUniversity of Waterloo
Degree spectra of almost computable structures

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Arindam RoyChoudhuryCornell University
Likelihood estimation of the population tree
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Martin Z. BazantStanford University
Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
Tomoo MatsumuraCornell University
Introduction to orbifolds and differentiable stacks, part II

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Financial Engineering Seminar
Richard MarinCornell University
The democratization of securities lending

11:40 AM
Rhodes 253
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
Face rings of manifolds and spaces with isolated singularities

1:20 PM
Malott 251
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Calculating universal minimal flows

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Michael SingerNorth Carolina State University
Differential groups and the Gamma function
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 17, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Richard SchwartzBrown University
Outer billiards and the modular group

2:15 PM
Malott 205
TAM Seminar
Mont HubbardUniversity of California at Davis
Design and safe ski jump landing surfaces
Refreshments at 2:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

2:30 PM
Thurston 204
CAM Colloquium
Alain KarmaNortheastern University
Can mathematics help to understand and prevent sudden cardiac death?
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Michael SingerNorth Carolina State University
Galois theory of parameterized linear differential equations and linear differential algebraic groups

3:30 PM
Malott 406