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Monday, April 13, 2009

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Garry BowlinBinghamton University
The Gale-Berlekamp switching game

2:30 PM
Malott 230
Analysis Seminar
Mike MunnCUNY
Volume growth and the topology of manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Yogi SharmaCornell University
Title TBA

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Shirshendu ChatterjeeCornell University
Two particle systems on random graphs

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Biao WangCornell University
Minimal surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian 3-manifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Logic Seminar
Stevo TodorcevicCNRS, University of Toronto
Borel chromatic numbers

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Warren PowellPrinceton University
The knowledge gradient for optimal learning
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Alex FokCornell University
From the Octonians to Bott periodicity
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 251
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Statistics Seminar
Dankmar BöhningUniversity of Reading
Capture-recapture estimation of population size by means of likelihood methods and empirical Bayesian smoothing
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
TAM Seminar
Kevin LynchNorthwestern University
Robot assembly: from vibratory manipulation to self-organization
Refreshments at 4:15 PM in 206 Thurston Hall

4:30 PM
Thurston 205
What Is... Seminar
Dan BarbaschCornell University
What is the unitary dual of the rational points of a real or p-adic linear reductive group?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Ri-Xiang ChenCornell University
The Koszul complex

12:00 PM
Malott 420C
Oliver Club
Andrei MinchenkoMoscow State University and Cornell University
Root systems, Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams and their applications
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 251
Friday, April 17, 2009

Financial Engineering Seminar
Steve ShreveCarnegie Mellon University
A mixture model for exotic options

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Christopher ScheperCornell University
Geometry of mixed-mode oscillations in a chemical model

2:15 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
Iain D. CouzinPrinceton University
Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, April 20, 2009

Analysis Seminar
John HubbardCornell University
The structure of quadratic Julia sets II

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Fulkerson Lecture Series
James O. BergerDuke University
I don’t know where I’m gonna go when the volcano blows

4:30 PM
Phillips 101
Math Club
Steve HeilmanCornell University
Spectral dynamics, fractals, and the quantum-classical correspondence

4:30 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Adam PiggottBucknell College
Normal forms for automorphisms of groups

1:30 PM
Malott 207
Olivetti Club
Remus RaduCornell University
Invariant laminations and Julia sets
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 251
Fulkerson Lecture Series
James O. BergerDuke University
Working with inexact models: The world of computer modeling I
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 PM
Phillips 203
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Statistics Seminar
Brad CarlinUniversity of Minnesota
Analysis of marked point patterns with spatial and nonspatial covariate information
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Financial Engineering Seminar
Jim GatheralMerrill Lynch
No arbitrage and the decay of market impact

5:15 PM
Rhodes 267
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Kristine JonesCornell University
Cohen-Macaulay rings

12:00 PM
Malott 420C
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Roland RoederSUNY Stony Brook
Complex dynamics for the Lee-Yang zeros - study of a model magnetic material

1:15 PM
Malott 230
Fulkerson Lecture Series
James O. BergerDuke University
Working with inexact models: The world of computer modeling II

3:00 PM
Phillips 219
Oliver Club
Yael KarshonUniversity of Toronto
Hamiltonian group actions
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 251
Friday, April 24, 2009

Financial Engineering Seminar
Steven KouColumbia University
Default clustering and valuation of collateralized debt obligations

12:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Hinke OsingaUniversity of Bristol and Cornell University
Numerical computation of isochrons

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Richard ValeCornell University
A theorem of Domokos on quiver moduli

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Greg FasshauerIllinois Institute of Technology
On the use of radial basis functions for the solution of differential equations
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655