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Monday, August 31, 2009

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Caroline KlivansUniversity of Chicago
A geometric interpretation of the characteristic polynomial of reflection arrangements

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Zhou ZhangUniversity of Michigan
Scalar curvature behavior of Kaehler-Ricci flow

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Leen StougieFree University and CWI, Amsterdam
Price of robustness in single machine scheduling

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Edward WaymireOregon State University
Tree polymers

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Olivetti Club
Kathryn LindseyCornell University
A game of life on Penrose tilings
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Statistics Seminar
Nilanjan ChatterjeeNational Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health
Analysis of case-control studies in genomic epidemiology: efficiency beyond semi-parametric bounds?
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Oliver Club
Richard DurrettCornell University
Three aspects of life on a random graph
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, September 4, 2009

CAM Colloquium
Bryan GrenfellPenn State University
Spatiotemporal dynamics and evolution of acute infectious diseases
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, September 7, 2009

Analysis Seminar
Camil MuscaluCornell University
Boundedness of pseudo-differential operators: a natural approach

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Robert ConnellyCornell University
Global rigidity

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Number Theory Seminar
Ravi RamakrishnaCornell University
An approach to level lowering for residually reducible Galois representations

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Jason ManningUniversity at Buffalo
Residual finiteness and separability of quasiconvex subgroups

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
Fundamentals of Pi-0-1 classes (Ch. III)

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Amin SaberiStanford University
In search of a thin tree: new approximation algorithms for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Anna BertigerCornell University
How to (almost) get rich using algebraic geometry
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Allen KnutsonCornell University
Frobenius splittings

1:30 PM
Malott 310D
Statistics Seminar
Yuefeng WuCornell University
Asymptotic behavior of some Bayesian nonparametric and semi-parametric procedures
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Logic Seminar
Bakhadyr KhoussainovUniversity of Auckland and Cornell University
Automatic structures: proving non-automaticity

4:00 PM
Malott 206
What Is... Seminar
Timothy RileyCornell University
What is a Dehn function?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Kieval Lecture
Keith DevlinStanford University
Using mathematics to solve life’s mysteries
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in 532 Malott Hall.

4:30 PM
Malott 228
Friday, September 11, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Richard Rand, Hiba Sheheitli, and Rocio RuelasCornell University
Modeling relaxation oscillators

2:15 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
Lawren SmithlineCenter for Communications Research
A cryptic letter to Thomas Jefferson
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Allen KnutsonCornell University
Degenerations of Schubert varieties

3:30 PM
Malott 406