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Monday, January 24, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Marsha BergerNew York University
Status report on embedded boundary grids
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Mihai BailesteanuCornell University
Heat equation under the Ricci flow - old and new

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Iddo SametHebrew University
Homology and volume of negatively curved orbifolds

1:30 PM
Malott 224
ORIE Colloquium
Erhan BayraktarUniversity of Michigan
Valuation equations for stochastic volatility models
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Oliver Club
Joachim KriegerUniversity of Pennsylvania and EPF-Lausanne
Global regularity and singularity formation for critical nonlinear wave equations
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Statistics Seminar
Tyler McCormickColumbia University
Latent space models for networks using aggregated relational data
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in 1181 Comstock Hall.

4:00 PM
Biotech G01
Logic Seminar
Mingzhong CaiCornell University
The ordering of provable totality on Turing algorithms

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Olivetti Club
Andrew MarshallCornell University
Embedding the tetrahedral graph, K_4, in R^3
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, January 28, 2011

CAM Colloquium
Bruno JedynakJohns Hopkins University
The game of 20 questions with noisy answers
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Probability Seminar
Anastasia RaymerUniversity of California at Davis
Mixing time of the 15 puzzle

4:00 PM
Malott 251
Monday, January 31, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Alex VladimirskyCornell University
Optimal control with budget constraints and resets
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
f-vectors and 3-manifold complexity

2:30 PM
Malott 205
Analysis Seminar
Ioan BejenaruUniversity of Chicago
Schroedinger maps

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Alexander Vandenberg-RodesUCLA
Zeros of polynomials arising from Markov chains

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Math Club
Robert StrichartzCornell University
Summer research opportunities

4:30 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tom ChurchUniversity of Chicago
Representation theory and homological stability

1:30 PM
Malott 224
Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
Pi-0-1 classes

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Dacheng XiuPrinceton University
Dissecting option prices using closed-form series expansion with an empirical study of variance risk premia
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Thomas KernCornell University
Tiling problems
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
The theory of the Medvedev degrees of Pi-0-1 classes

4:00 PM
Malott 206
What Is... Seminar
John HubbardCornell University
What is complex dynamics?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Oliver Club
John LottUniversity of California at Berkeley
The geometry of the space of measures and its applications
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, February 4, 2011

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Raluca TanaseCornell University
The escaping set for complex Hénon maps

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Oliver Club
Tibor JordánEötvös University
Globally rigid graphs and uniquely localizable networks
Refreshments at 2:00 PM in the lounge.

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Lie Groups Seminar
Meng-Kiat ChuahNational Tsing Hua University of Taiwan
Models of semisimple Lie groups

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Yinyu YeStanford University
The simplex and policy-iteration methods are strongly polynomial for the Markov decision process with a constant discount
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Probability Seminar
Dave HerzogUniversity of Arizona
On the stability of stochastic differential equations

4:00 PM
Malott 251