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Monday, September 15, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Xianjin XuBinghamton University
Gradient estimates for the degenerate parabolic equation u_t=Delta F(u) on manifolds and some applications

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University
Examples of merging of time inhomogeneous Markov chains

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Chaitanya SwamyUniversity of Waterloo
Risk-averse stochastic optimization: models and algorithms

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Joseph ZaksUniversity of Haifa, Israel
On subsets of E^n which can be rationally realizable in some E^m

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Biao WangCornell University
Foliations for quasi-Fuchsian 3-manifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Some basics from ergodic theory

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Susan MartonosiHarvey Mudd College and Cornell University
OR models for counterterrorism
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Sarah KochCornell University
Title TBA
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
The atomic model theorem and type omitting, part II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
George KhachatryanCornell University
An introduction to A-infinity algebras II

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Number Theory Seminar
Krzysztof KlosinCornell University
Congruences among automorphic forms and the Bloch-Kato conjecture

4:30 PM
Malott 224
TAM Seminar
James JenkinsCornell University
Wind-blown sand
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Frank MooreCornell University
Infinite free resolutions, part I

1:20 PM
Malott 251
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Characterizing extreme amenability of automorphism groups

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Financial Engineering Seminar
Lee MaclinPragma Financial Systems
Optimal execution and the dynamic portfolio management problem - a simulation based approach

6:00 PM
Ives 115
Friday, September 19, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Yulij IlyashenkoCornell University
Polynomial differential equations in real and complex domains

2:15 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
Veit ElserCornell University
Solving constraint problems by ‘divide and concur’
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Tomoo MatsumuraCornell University
Stringy/orbifold cohomology ring and symmetric product orbifolds

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Monday, September 22, 2008

Analysis Seminar
Alexander BendikovWroclaw University
Some spectral properties of random walk operators

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Philip ProtterCornell University
Filtration shrinkage and the strange world of local Martingales

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Aaron ArcherAT&T Research
Title TBA

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Marcelo AguiarTexas A&M University
A unified approach to Hopf algebras

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Jeremie BrieusselCornell University
Intermediate and non-uniform growth of groups

1:30 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Harold HodesCornell University
Ramified-type logic and axioms of reducibility

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Mark HuberDuke University
Perfect simulation of Matérn type III point processes
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Anna BertigerCornell University
Formal power series are friends, not food
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Statistics Seminar
Fang YaoUniversity of Toronto
Functional mixture regression
Refreshments after the talk in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Noncommutative Algebra Seminar
George KhachatryanCornell University
An introduction to A-infinity algebras III

4:30 PM
Malott 205
Number Theory Seminar
Ben LundellCornell University
Growth of torsion subgroups of elliptic curves in towers of number fields

4:30 PM
Malott 224
TAM Seminar
Assad OberaiRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Inverse problems in mechanics
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
What Is... Seminar
Yulij IlyashenkoCornell University
What is an attractor?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, September 25, 2008

CAM Math Sciences Seminar
Bernd KrauskopfUniversity of Bristol
Applied nonlinear dynamics from lasers to aircraft
Joint with IGERT program in nonlinear systems. Pizza lunch will be served.

12:00 PM
Rhodes 657
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Frank MooreCornell University
Infinite free resolutions, part II

1:20 PM
Malott 251
Logic Seminar
Mia MinnesMIT
An automatic perspective on linear orders

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Oliver Club
Steven HofmannUniversity of Missouri at Columbia
Local Tb theorems and applications in PDE
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, September 26, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Bernd KrauskopfUniversity of Bristol
The Lorenz manifold: from mathematics to steel

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Ajay RamadossCornell University
A Hochschild cocycle and a Lefschetz number theorem for differential operators

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Timothy HallNASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Statistical modeling of North Atlantic hurricanes: landfall and climate
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655