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Monday, November 2, 2009

Analysis Seminar
Kyril TintarevUppsala University
Cocompact embeddings of Banach spaces and the critical nonlinearity revisited

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Eran NevoCornell University
Upper bounds on face numbers of flag spheres

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Adam SikoraUniversity at Buffalo
Character varieties

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Howard BlairSyracuse University
Applications of measure on trees: quantum logic and quantum cellular automata

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Christine ShoemakerCornell University
Continuous optimization with response surfaces for computationally expensive simulation models including environmental applications
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Gwyneth WhieldonCornell University
What’s an anagram of Banach-Tarski? ... and other paradoxes of infinity
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Eran NevoCornell University
Powers of edge ideals

1:30 PM
Malott 420C
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Alon AltmanStanford University
Manipulating tournaments

4:00 PM
Upson 315
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Medvedev degrees of Pi-0-1 classes I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Brent JohnsonEmory University
On variable selection for estimating functions
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Yuri BerestCornell University
What is quantization?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Friday, November 6, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Yulij IlyashenkoCornell University
Bony and thick attractors

2:15 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
David HiebelerUniversity of Maine
Modeling outbreaks in structured populations and the internet
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, November 9, 2009

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Jessica ZhangCarnegie Mellon University
High fidelity geometric modeling and finite element mesh generation from volumetric imaging data with applications in computational mechanics
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 5126
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Russ WoodroofeWashington University
Chordal clutters and k-decomposability

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Artem PulemotovCornell University
Gradient estimates for the heat equation on manifolds with boundary

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
John MayberryCornell University
Traveling waves of selective sweeps

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Matt RathbunUniversity of California at Davis
High distance knots in any 3-manifold

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Medvedev degrees of Pi-0-1 classes II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Dan BienstockColumbia University
Using eigenvalue techniques to obtain better bounds for convex objective, non-convex optimization problems
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Jenna RajchgotCornell University
Groups, geometry, and … music? A few interesting appearances of math in music theory
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Gregory MullerCornell University
Noncommutative CM rings

1:30 PM
Malott 420C
Statistics Seminar
Ana-Maria StaicuNCSU
Generalized multilevel functional regression
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Johanna FranklinFields Institute and University of Waterloo
n-r.e. randomness

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Teaching Seminar
Jennifer BiermannCornell University
Teaching jobs for graduate students - ways to get your stipend

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Kim RuaneTufts University
Automorphism groups of graph products

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Oliver Club
Andrei CaldararuUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
The Pfaffian-Grassmannian derived equivalence
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 13, 2009

Lie Groups Seminar
Andrei CaldararuUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
A conjecture of Duflo and the Ext algebra of branes

3:30 PM
Malott 406