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Department of Mathematics

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Monday, November 14, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Gabriel de FriasCornell University
A multiscale explicit dynamics method for solid mechanics using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Margaret ReaddyUniversity of Kentucky
Euler flag enumeration of Whitney stratified spaces

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Ovidiu MunteanuColumbia University
Gradient Ricci solitons

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Special Lecture
Jayce GetzMcGill University
An approach to nonsolvable base change

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Probability Seminar
Patrick DriscollUniversity of Virginia
Smooth densities for processes driven by fractional Brownian motion

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Mark HagenMcGill University
Graphs associated to CAT(0) cube complexes

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

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Moshe BabaioffMicrosoft Research
Peaches, lemons, and cookies: designing auction markets with dispersed information

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Olivetti Club
Hyungryul BaikCornell University
Universal circle
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Special Lecture
Ioan BejenaruUniversity of Chicago
Equivariant Schroedinger maps in 2D with large data

1:30 PM
Malott 532
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Radoslav ZlatevCornell University
Bound on the projective dimension of ideals generated by quadratic polynomials

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Justin MooreCornell University
The Aviles-Todorcevic classification of analytic strong n-gaps

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Philip ReissNew York University
Introducing functional data analysis to neuroimaging, and vice versa

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
What Is... Seminar
Yuri BerestCornell University
What is an integrable system?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Oliver Club
Richard SchwartzBrown University
Polygonal outer billiards
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, November 18, 2011

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Roland RoederIndiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Intertwined basins for a cylinder map arising from statistical physics

2:25 PM
Malott 205
Lie Groups Seminar
Zhiwei YunMIT
Motives and the inverse Galois problem

3:15 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Andreea MincaCornell University
Default contagion in financial markets: a reduced form approach
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 I

3:30 PM
Malott 203
Kieval Lecture
Richard SchwartzBrown University
Shapes emerging from subdivisions of triangles
Join us at 4:00 p.m. in 532 Malott Hall for refreshments before the talk.

4:30 PM
Malott 228
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