Upcoming Events

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Statistics Seminar
Tyler McCormickColumbia University
Latent space models for networks using aggregated relational data
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in 1181 Comstock Hall.

4:00 PM
Biotech G01
Logic Seminar
Mingzhong CaiCornell University
The ordering of provable totality on Turing algorithms

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Olivetti Club
Andrew MarshallCornell University
Embedding the tetrahedral graph, K_4, in R^3
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, January 28, 2011

CAM Colloquium
Bruno JedynakJohns Hopkins University
The game of 20 questions with noisy answers
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Probability Seminar
Anastasia RaymerUniversity of California at Davis
Mixing time of the 15 puzzle

4:00 PM
Malott 251
Monday, January 31, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Alex VladimirskyCornell University
Optimal control with budget constraints and resets
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 315
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Edward SwartzCornell University
f-vectors and 3-manifold complexity

2:30 PM
Malott 205
Analysis Seminar
Ioan BejenaruUniversity of Chicago
Schroedinger maps

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Probability Seminar
Alexander Vandenberg-RodesUCLA
Zeros of polynomials arising from Markov chains

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Math Club
Robert StrichartzCornell University
Summer research opportunities

4:30 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tom ChurchUniversity of Chicago
Representation theory and homological stability

1:30 PM
Malott 224
Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
Pi-0-1 classes

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Dacheng XiuPrinceton University
Dissecting option prices using closed-form series expansion with an empirical study of variance risk premia
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Thomas KernCornell University
Tiling problems
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Logic Seminar
Paul ShaferCornell University
The theory of the Medvedev degrees of Pi-0-1 classes

4:00 PM
Malott 206
What Is... Seminar
John HubbardCornell University
What is complex dynamics?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Oliver Club
John LottUniversity of California at Berkeley
The geometry of the space of measures and its applications
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Friday, February 4, 2011

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Raluca TanaseCornell University
The escaping set for complex Hénon maps

2:15 PM
Malott 205
Oliver Club
Tibor JordánEötvös University
Globally rigid graphs and uniquely localizable networks
Refreshments at 2:00 PM in the lounge.

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Lie Groups Seminar
Meng-Kiat ChuahNational Tsing Hua University of Taiwan
Models of semisimple Lie groups

3:30 PM
Malott 406
CAM Colloquium
Yinyu YeStanford University
The simplex and policy-iteration methods are strongly polynomial for the Markov decision process with a constant discount
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Probability Seminar
Dave HerzogUniversity of Arizona
On the stability of stochastic differential equations

4:00 PM
Malott 251
Monday, February 7, 2011

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Chris ShoemakerCornell University
Surrogate optimization for nonlinear and global optimization of computationally expensive simulation models
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

1:25 PM
Upson 215
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Dylan ThurstonBarnard College
Affine rigidity

2:30 PM
Malott 205
Analysis Seminar
Ciprian PredaWest University of Timisoara and Cornell University
Exponential dichotomies for variational equations

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
John LaffertyCarnegie Mellon University
Graph estimation

4:00 PM
Upson B17
Probability Seminar
Deniz KarliUniversity of British Columbia
Littlewood-Paley theory and multiplier problem from a probabilistic approach

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Logic Seminar
David BelangerCornell University
Turing degrees of models

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Johannes RufColumbia University
Hedging under arbitrage
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Peter LuthyCornell University
A discussion of the periodic table of elements
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Computational and Commutative Algebra Seminar
Claudiu RaicuUniversity of California at Berkeley
Affine toric equivalence relations are effective

4:00 PM
Malott 203
Statistics Seminar
David MattesonCornell University
Independent component analysis via distance covariance

4:00 PM
Biotech G01
Logic Seminar
Adam BjorndahlCornell University
The descriptive complexity of strings C and K, part I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Huijia (Rachel) LinCornell University
Title TBA

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Teaching Seminar
Maria TerrellCornell University
Design and results of calculus research surveys

5:15 PM
Malott 207