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Monday, February 18, 2013

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Zach ClawsonCornell University
Causal domain restriction techniques
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Camil MuscaluCornell University
Some remarks on the n-linear Hilbert transform for n ≥ 4

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Yi ShenCornell University
Stationarity and random locations

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Ling LongIowa State and Cornell University
Weakly holomorphic modular forms and congruences

4:00 PM
Malott 230
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Matt BrinBinghamton University
Thompson’s groups and the four color theorem

1:30 PM
Malott 224
Logic Seminar
Adam BjorndahlCornell University
Language-based games

2:55 PM
Malott 206
Cool Short Proofs to Show your Undergrads
Daniel Miller, Ahmad Rafiqi, Joe Gallagher, and Kathryn Lindsey

3:15 PM
Malott 207
ORIE Colloquium
Santiago BalseiroColumbia
Competition and yield optimization in online display advertising exchanges
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Ahmad RafiqiCornell University
Thurston-Nielsen classification of automorphisms of hyperbolic surfaces
Refreshments at 4:00 PM in the lounge.

4:30 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Logic Seminar
Hossein Lamei RamandiCornell University
Countable abelian group actions and hyperfinite equivalence relations, part I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Sahand NegahbanMIT
Structured estimation in high dimensions

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Teaching Seminar
Daniel Miller, Ahmad Rafiqi, Joe Gallagher, and Kathryn LindseyCornell University
Cool short proofs to show your undergrads

5:25 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Unitary Representations of Reductive Lie Groups
Peter Trapa

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Oliver Club
Peter TrapaUniversity of Utah
Unitary representations of reductive Lie groups
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, February 22, 2013

Lie Groups Seminar
Peter TrapaUniversity of Utah
Computing invariant forms on Harish-Chandra modules

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Javier PenaCarnegie Mellon University
On the role of separation in convex optimization
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, February 25, 2013

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Louis BilleraCornell University
Balanced and unbalanced collections

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Analysis Seminar
Mark CerenziaCornell University
Harnack inequality on a mixed space and applications

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Number Theory Seminar
Ravi RamakrishnaCornell University
A gentle introduction to p-adic local Langlands

4:00 PM
Malott 230
Probability Seminar
Sebastien RochUniversity of Wisconsin
Probabilistic techniques in mathematical phylogenetics: relating combinatorial and variational distances on trees
Joint with the CS Theory Seminar.

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Martin KassabovCornell University
Groups of oscillating intermediate growth

1:30 PM
Malott 224
Logic Seminar
Diana Ojeda AristizabalCornell University
A norm for Tsirelson space

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Marco MolinaroCarnegie Mellon University
Incomplete information and large dimensionality in decision making
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Balazs ElekCornell University
Finite groups of Lie type
Refreshments at 4:00 PM in the lounge.

4:30 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Logic Seminar
Hossein Lamei RamandiCornell University
Countable abelian group actions and hyperfinite equivalence relations, part II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Tong ZhangRutgers University
Some recent progress on high dimensional sparse estimation with concave regularization

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
What Is... Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
What is the Turing jump?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Oliver Club
Edray GoinsPurdue University
From Klein’s Platonic solids to Kepler’s Archimedean solids: elliptic curves and dessins d’enfants
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, March 1, 2013

Geometric Analysis Seminar
Tianyi ZhengCornell University
Large scale analysis on co-compact covers

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Lie Groups Seminar
Birgit SpehCornell University
Branching laws for infinite dimensional representations: an example

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Gerardo Chowell-PuenteArizona State University
Disentangling the transmission dynamics of seasonal and pandemic influenza
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655