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Monday, November 5, 2012

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Steve MarschnerCornell University
Manifold exploration: a Markov chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Karola MeszarosCornell University
Flow polytopes and the Kostant partition function

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Alex KiselevUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison
Nonlocal maximum principles for active scalars

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Jun MasamunePennsylvania State University at Altoona
Conservation property and recurrence of Dirichlet forms

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Raghu MekaInstitute for Advanced Study
Constructive discrepancy minimization by walking on the edges

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Bradley ForrestRichard Stockton College of New Jersey
A Thompson group for the Basilica

1:30 PM
Malott 206
Logic Seminar
Rod DowneyVictoria University of Wellington
Recent progress in parameterized upper and lower bounds

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Balazs ElekCornell University
Semisimple Lie groups and their Bott-Samelson and flag manifolds
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

AWM Tea Time Tiny Talk
Michael StillmanCornell University
Computations with cubic curves

3:00 PM
Malott 532
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Laura EscobarCornell University
A combinatorial strategy to solve the F-conjecture

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Rod DowneyVictoria University of Wellington
The computability theory of the finite intersection principle

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Patrick PerryNew York University
Point process modeling for directed interaction networks

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Oliver Club
Gang TianPrinceton University
Conic Kahler-Einstein metrics
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, November 9, 2012

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Raluca TanaseCornell University
Hyperbolic and semi-parabolic Hénon maps II

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Geometric Analysis Seminar
Peng WuCornell University
On four-dimensional anti-self-dual gradient Ricci solitons (by Chen-Wang)

2:30 PM
Malott 206
CAM Colloquium
Ricardo DazianoCornell University
Statistical inference on consumers’ preferences and willingness-to-pay
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 253
Monday, November 12, 2012

Analysis Seminar
Christopher SoggeJohns Hopkins University
A few endpoint restriction theorems for eigenfunctions

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Arpita GhoshCornell University
Social computing and user generated content: a game-theoretic approach

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Subhro GhoshUniversity of California at Berkeley
What does a point process outside a domain tell us about what’s inside?

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Igor RapinchuckYale University
On division algebras having the same maximal subfields

1:30 PM
Malott 206
Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
The Turing degrees below generics and randoms

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Olivetti Club
Robert KeslerCornell University
Global well-posedness for nonlinear dispersive equations
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

AWM Tea Time Tiny Talk
Rodrigo TrevinoCornell University
Burritos and bouncy billiards

3:00 PM
Malott 532
Logic Seminar
Li WeiNational University of Singapore and Cornell University
Saturated models (sec. 8)

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Radu CraiuUniversity of Toronto
Bayesian inference for conditional copula models with continuous and binary responses

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
Special Lecture
Steven StrogatzCornell University
Math for the masses, lecture and Q&A
Light refreshments will be provided.

4:30 PM
Goldwin Smith - Lewis Auditorium
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Oliver Club
Christopher SoggeJohns Hopkins University
The Weyl law and bounds for the forced membrane problem
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
ORIE Colloquium
Vivek FariasMIT
A new approach to learning and modeling choice
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Friday, November 16, 2012

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tuyen Trung TruongSyracuse University
On automorphisms of blowups of P^3

2:15 PM
Malott 205
CAM Colloquium
Kenneth ReganUniversity at Buffalo
Skill inference and chess cheating detection from big data
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 253
Lie Groups Seminar
Tara HolmCornell University
The Morse-Bott-Kirwan condition is local

3:30 PM
Malott 406