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Monday, November 21, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Jeff ChadwickCornell University
Towards efficient PDE solvers via rank-structured Cholesky factorizations
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
Symmetric functions V

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Adam JacobColumbia University
The Yang-Mills flow and the Atiyah-Bott formula on compact Kahler manifolds

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Jonathan KelnerMIT
Electrical flows, Laplacian systems, and faster approximation of maximum flow in undirected graphs

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Wenbo LiUniversity of Delaware
Probabilities of all real zeros for random polynomials

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Math Club
Ana Rita PiresCornell University
A little linear algebra, a little symplectic geometry

4:30 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Harold SultanColumbia University
Hyperbolic direction in CAT(0) spaces

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
Dvoretsky’s theorem, part II

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
David WilliamsonCornell University
The subtour LP for the traveling salesman problem
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Monday, November 28, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Josef SifuentesNew York University
The stability of GMRES convergence, with application to preconditioning by approximate deflations
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Yulij IlyashenkoCornell University and Independent University of Moscow
Rotation numbers and moduli of elliptic curves

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Marten WegkampCornell University
Joint variable and rank selection for parsimonious estimation of high dimensional matrices

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Robert KleinbergCornell University
Which networks are least susceptible to cascading failures?

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Igor MineyevUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submultiplicativity and the Hanna Neumann conjecture

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
The limits of determinacy in second order arithmetic

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
John BirgeUniversity of Chicago
Monte Carlo and Bayesian methods for stochastic dynamic programs
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Special Lecture
Benjamin BrubakerMIT
Whittaker coefficients of Eisenstein series

4:20 PM
Malott 207
Olivetti Club
Adam BjorndahlCornell University
Nash equilibrium and other solution concepts
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Kuntal BanerjeeBoston University
Arnol’d tongues for the standard family

3:30 PM
Malott 310D
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Mathias LedererUniversität Bielefeld and Cornell University
A Bialynicki-Birula decomposition of Hilbert schemes of points in A^3

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Grigor SargsyanRutgers University
The Solovay hierarchy

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Yiyuan SheFlorida State University
Joint variable and rank selection for parsimonious estimation of high dimensional matrices

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Ryzhov MityaSt. Petersburg State University
Phase-lock effect for equations on the torus modeling Josephson junctions

4:30 PM
Malott 310D
What Is... Seminar
Kenneth BrownCornell University
What is Thompson’s group?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Nick SheridanMIT
Homological mirror symmetry for a Calabi-Yau hypersurface in projective space

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Oliver Club
Jean-Claude HausmannUniversity of Geneva
Triangles on Jordan C^1-curves
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, December 2, 2011

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Thomas KoberdaHarvard University
Teichmüller polynomials, Alexander polynomials and finite covers of surfaces

2:25 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
Raissa D’SouzaUniversity of California at Davis
Percolation and cascades in interdependent networks
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Working Group on Kleinian Groups
Yasemin KaraCornell University
Selberg trace formula and Huber’s theorem, part II

3:30 PM
Malott 203