Upcoming Events

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Statistics Seminar
Radhika KulkarniSAS Institute, Inc.
Transforming the data deluge into data-driven insights: analytics that drive business value
Joint with ORIE.

2:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
Noam GreenbergVictoria University of Wellington
A new ideal of c.e. degrees?

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Mathias LedererUniversität Bielefeld and Cornell University
Desingularization and Betti numbers

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Statistics Seminar
Jieping YeArizona State University
Large-scale structured sparse learning

4:00 PM
Biotech G01
What Is... Seminar
Dan BarbaschCornell University
What is a Lie group?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Logic Seminar
Noam GreenbergVictoria University of Wellington
Capturing the nonhyperarithmetic degrees by an algebraic structure

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
George KhatchatryanCornell University
Derived representation schemes

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Statistics Seminar
Lawrence BrownUniversity of Pennsylvania
Valid statistical inference after model selection

4:00 PM
Biotech G01
Teaching Seminar
Jennifer Biermann and Jonathan NeedlemanCornell University
Writing in lower-level math classes

5:10 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Sophus Lie Days
Stephen GelbartWeizmann Institute
Primes, Riemann, Lie groups, and Langlands, using a history of mathematics up through today
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, October 15, 2010

Sophus Lie Days
Stephen GelbartWeizmann Institute
A p-adic integral for the reciprocal of L-functions

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Chi-Wang ShuBrown University
Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for multiscale problems
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, October 18, 2010

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Berkant SavasUniversity of Texas at Austin
Krylov-type tensor computations and perturbation analysis for tensor approximations
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Victor KleptsynInttitut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes (France)
Group actions on the circle

2:30 PM
Malott 230
Analysis Seminar
Leonid KovalevSyracuse University
Minimization of energy among (almost) bijective maps in two dimensions

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Patricia HershNorth Carolina State University and Cornell University
The q=–1 phenomenon via homology concentration

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Nathaniel EldredgeCornell University
Hypoelliptic heat kernels and Lie groups

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Renato Paes Leme
Pure and Bayes-Nash price of anarchy for generalized second price auction

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Math Club
Alexander VladimirskyCornell University
Mathematical models: the good, the bad, and the ugly

4:30 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Zoran SunicTexas A&M University
Hanoi twin towers

1:30 PM
Malott 253
Logic Seminar
James WestCornell University
Rosenthal compacta contain dense metrizable subspaces, part I

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Henrik HultKTH
Efficient calculation of risk measures by importance sampling - the heavy-tailed case
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Gwyneth WhieldonCornell University
Combinatorics from THE BOOK
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Samuel KolinsCornell University
Hilbert functions of balls

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
Medvedev degrees: characterizing the join-irreducibles and the first-order theory

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Robert StineUniversity of Pennsylvania
Predicting spatio-temporal credit default rates

4:00 PM
Biotech G01
What Is... Seminar
Allen HatcherCornell University
What is an exotic sphere?

5:30 PM
Malott 207