Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Logic Seminar
Ellie LauriCornell University
Logic for metric structures

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Lie Groups Seminar
Alex LeontievTokyo
Symmetry Breaking Operators of Indefinite Orthogonal Groups O(p, q)

4:15 PM
Malott 406
Lie Groups Seminar
Alex LeontievTokyo University
Title TBA, special meeting

4:15 PM
Malott 406
What Is... Seminar
Slawomir SoleckiCornell University
What is Ramsey theory?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Pi Day Celebration
Pi(e) Eating Contest
And pi day celebration

1:59 PM
Malott Hall Lounge
Oliver Club
Mihai StoiciuWilliams College
The Mathematics of Rubik's Cube and Other Twisty Puzzles
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Undergraduate Math Club
Puzzle Session
Undergraduate Math Club Puzzle Session
Free pizza will be provided!

6:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, March 15, 2019

Number Theory Seminar
Eugenia RosuMax Planck Institute for Mathematics & University of Arizona
Special cycles on orthogonal Shimura varieties

2:25 PM
Malott 205
Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Javier Peña Carnegie Mellon University
First-order algorithms for convex minimization via the convex conjugate

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Lie Groups Seminar
Nigel HigsonPenn State, University Park
The hydrogen atom and families of representations

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Women and Math Ambassador Program event
Women and Math Ambassador Program Speakers
Title TBA

12:00 PM
251 Malott Hall
Monday, March 18, 2019

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Mike StillmanCornell University
Computational algebraic geometry and Macaulay2

1:25 PM
Gates 406
Analysis Seminar
Sasha TeplyaevUniversity of Connecticut
Spectral analysis and diffusions on singular spaces

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Alexander LazarUniversity of Miami
The Intersection Lattice of the Homogenized Linial Arrangement

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Probability Seminar
Yuwen WangCornell University
Long jump random walks on finite nilpotent groups

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Andrew Morgan
Concrete Security Bounds in Cryptography: Advancing the Meta-Reduction Paradigm

4:00 PM
Gates 122
Undergraduate Math Club
Todd Lensman
Optimal Control and Nonlinear Taxation

5:15 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Electronic Seminar on Mathematics Education
Mike WeimerskirchUniversity of Minnesota
Topic TBA

12:00 PM
Malott 310D (Conference Room)
Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Steve FerryRutgers University
A Brief Tour of High-Dimensional Topology

1:30 PM
Malott 203
ORIE Colloquium
Lei YingArizona State
Stein’s Method for Big-Data Systems: From Learning Queues to Q-Learning

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Daoji Huang
Bruhat atlas on stratified manifold
Refreshments will be served in the lounge at 4:00 PM.

4:30 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Logic Seminar
Zach NorwoodCornell University
A proof of completeness for continuous first-order logic after Ben Yaacov and Pedersen

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Teaching Seminar
Jim Ovenhiser
Math and Donuts : Using Analogies as an Instructional Strategy in Math
Pizza will be served!

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Cornell-Citi Financial Data Science Seminars:
Gordon RitterNYU Tandon
Reinforcement Learning and the Discovery of Arbitrage Opportunities

6:00 PM
Tata Innovation Center 5th Floor Conference Room
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Oliver WangUniversity of Chicago
Cohomology of boundaries under Dehn fillings

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Oliver Club
Allen KnutsonCornell University
Schubert calculus, puzzles, and quiver varieties
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, March 22, 2019

Lie Groups Seminar
Allen KnutsonCornell University
Quiver varieties, quantized loop algebra representations, and Schubert calculus

3:30 PM
Malott 406
Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Alan EdelmanMIT
The GSVD, BackProp, & Julia

3:30 PM
Rhodes 655
Monday, March 25, 2019

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Ian Ellwood Neurobiology and behavior, Cornell University
Adversarial Entropy Systems. A new approach to modeling distributions with a generator

1:25 PM
Gates 406
Probability Seminar
Reza GheissariNew York University
Maximum and shape of 3D Ising interfaces

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Statistics Seminar
Michael JauchDuke University
Bayesian analysis with orthogonal matrix parameters

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
Undergraduate Math Club
Jake Januzelli
When Working mod p Isn’t Enough

5:15 PM
Malott 532
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Logic Seminar
Harold HodesCornell University
Modal logics, intuitionistic and classical, within moodal logics

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Daniel NeillNYU
Subset Scanning for Event and Pattern Detection

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Anwesh Ray
Parametrizing ring structures on $\mathbb{Z}^n$
Refreshments will be served in the lounge at 4:00 PM.

4:30 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Logic Seminar
Sebastian JungeCornell University
Metric Scott analysis

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Michael JauchDuke University
Bayesian analysis with orthogonal matrix parameters

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
What Is... Seminar
Ed SwartzCornell University
What is an h-vector?

4:45 PM
Malott 406