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Monday, November 1, 2010

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Tuhin SahaiUTRC
Hearing the clusters in a graph and decentralized algorithms for estimation and computation
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Saul BlancoCornell University
The shortest path poset of Bruhat intervals

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Yen DoGeorgia Tech and IAS
Variational estimates for paraproducts

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Xiaofei LiuCornell University
The contribution of trader interaction to market noise

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Logic Seminar
Yash LodhaCornell University
Premetric Rosenthal compacta of degree 2, part I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Baldur MagnussonCornell University
Targeted therapies: adaptive sequential designs for subgroup selection in clinical trials
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Oliver Club
Xinyi YuanColumbia University
On the Gross-Zagier formula
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Olivetti Club
Shisen LuoCornell University
Quasitoric manifolds
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 253
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Ben WebsterUniversity of Oregon
Counting points and combinatorics

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Logic Seminar
Baris UgurcanCornell University
Rosenthal’s l_1 theorem, part II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
What Is... Seminar
William ThurstonCornell University
What is mathematics?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Oliver Club
Patricia HershNorth Carolina State University and Cornell University
Regular CW complexes, total positivity, and Bruhat order
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 5, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Chris ScheperCornell University
A slow-fast analysis of the Gyorgyi and Field models of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Ben WebsterUniversity of Oregon
Categorification, Lie algebras, and topology

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Robert KohnNew York University
Surface relaxation below the roughening temperature: steps, PDR, and self-similarity
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, November 8, 2010

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Richard VuducGeorgia Tech
Should I port my code to a GPU?
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Special Lecture
Melanie WoodStanford University
Geometric parametrizations of ideal classes

1:30 PM
Malott 205
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Cristian LenartUniversity of Albany
Combinatorial formulas for Macdonald polynomials and applications

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Dan KnopfUniversity of Texas at Austin
Ricci flow through singularities

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Firas Rassoul-AghaUniversity of Utah
Almost sure invariance principles for random walk in mixing random environment

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Matt ZaremskyUniversity of Virginia
Weyl transitive but not strongly transitive group actions on buildings

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Forcing axioms and the continuum hypothesis

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Joe Po-Chou ChenCornell University
Counting photons in a fractal box
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Patricia HershNorth Carolina State University and Cornell University
Small resolutions via discrete Morse theory

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Mingzhong CaiCornell University
Tracing notions and their equivalent properties: two theorems on n-REA degrees

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Teaching Seminar
Russ ThompsonCornell University
Reflecting on your teaching philosophy

5:10 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Oliver Club
Peter WinklerDartmouth College
Coordinate percolation
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 12, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Kathryn LindseyCornell University
Counting minimal components of translation surfaces

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Probability Seminar
Philip Matchett WoodStanford University
Singularity of discrete random matrices

2:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
John SmillieCornell University
Billiards in polygons and renormalization
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Vivek ShendePrinceton University
Quantum invariants of plane curve singularities and their links

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Kieval Lecture
Peter WinklerDartmouth College
How puzzles reshape our intuition
Join us at 4:00 PM in 532 Malott Hall for refreshments before the talk.

4:30 PM
Malott 228