Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

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Monday, November 9, 2015

Analysis Seminar
Geordie RichardsUniversity of Rochester
On invariant Gibbs measures for generalized KdV

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Shirshendu ChatterjeeThe City University of New York
Phase transition for the threshold contact process, an "annealed approximation" of heterogeneous random Boolean networks

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Tselil SchrammUniversity of California at Berkeley
Tight lower bounds for planted clique in the degree-4 sum-of-squares program

4:00 PM
Gates 310
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Phillip WesolekUniversité Catholique de Louvain
The essentially chief series of a compactly generated totally disconnected locally compact group

1:30 PM
Malott 205
Logic Seminar
Damir DzhafarovUniversity of Connecticut at Storrs
The strength of $RT^1_k$

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Xu HuanNational University of Singapore
Practicable robust Markov decision processes

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Benjamin HoffmanCornell University
Lie algebroids and Poisson geometry
Refreshments will be served in the lounge at 4:00 PM.

4:30 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Logic Seminar
Jeffrey BergfalkCornell University
Admissible sets

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Regina NuzzoGallaudet University
Science journalism meets statistics: how jellybeans explain your sex life
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in 1181 Comstock Hall.

4:15 PM
Gates 122
Teaching Seminar
Voula CollinsCornell University
What is classroom flipping?

5:25 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Oliver Club
Sara MaloniBrown University
Polyhedra inscribed in quadrics and their geometry
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, November 13, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Yury KudryashovNational Research University Higher School of Economics
No planar billiard possesses an open set of quadrilateral periodic orbits

1:30 PM
Malott 224
Lie Groups Seminar
Donghoon JangKIAS
Fixed points of symplectic circle actions

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Heather HarringtonOxford University
Parameter-free approaches for comparing biochemical networks

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, November 16, 2015

Analysis Seminar
Evan RandlesCornell University
Heat kernel estimates for uniformly positive-homogeneous operators

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Robert ConnellyCornell University
Universal rigidity

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Tselil SchrammUniversity of California, Berkeley
Braess’s paradox for the spectral gap in random graphs and delocalization of eigenvectors

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Inna ZakharevichUniversity of Chicago
Cutting and pasting using algebraic $K$-theory

1:30 PM
Malott 205
Number Theory Seminar
Arul ShankarHarvard University
Arithmetic statistics and ranks of elliptic curves

2:45 PM
Malott 532
Logic Seminar
Burak KayaRutgers University
The complexity of topological conjugacy of pointed Cantor minimal systems

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Damon WischikUrban Engines
A big data system for things that move

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Teddy EinsteinCornell University
Decision problems in groups: the Adian-Rabin theorem
Refreshments will be served in the lounge at 4:00 PM.

4:30 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Logic Seminar
Martino LupiniCalifornia Institute of Technology
Polish groupoids and the classification problem for operator algebraic varieties

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Garvesh RaskuttiWisconsin Institute for Discovery
Recent developments in learning large-scale DAG models
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in 1181 Comstock Hall.

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
What Is... Seminar
Steve StrogatzCornell University
What is the Kuramoto model?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Oliver Club
Martino LupiniCalifornia Institute of Technology
Noncommutative simplices and the mathematics of quantum physics
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, November 20, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Richard RandCornell University
On parametric excitation

1:30 PM
Malott 224
Geometric Analysis Seminar
Allen BackCornell University
Equivariant Ricci realizabilty - a selective review and some opportunities

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Lie Groups Seminar
Ivan LosevNortheastern University
Derived equivalences for Rational Cherednik algebra

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium - CANCELLED
Jeff HastyUniversity of California at San Diego
Engineered genetic clocks: from "degrade and fire" to "integrate and fire" dynamics

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655