Mathematical Colloquia and Seminars

February 9 – February 22, 2012

Thursday, February 9
1:30 PM TOPOLOGY & GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY SEMINAR
Joan Licata, Institute for Advanced Study
Legendrian knot invariants in Seifert fibered spaces
Malott 203
3:00 PM ORIE COLLOQUIUM
Oleksii Mostovyi, Carnegie Mellon University
Necessary and sufficient conditions in the problem of optimal investment with intermediate consumption
Refreshments at 4:00 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.
Rhodes 253
4:00 PM OLIVER CLUB
Tony Licata, Institute for Advanced Study
Applications of sl_2 categorification
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.
Malott 532
Friday, February 10
2:15 PM ORIE COLLOQUIUM
Christina Aperjis, HP Laboratories
Variable temptations and black mark reputations
Rhodes 253
3:30 PM CAM COLLOQUIUM
Natalie Mahowald, Cornell University
Projecting future climate change
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.
Rhodes 655
3:30 PM LIE GROUPS SEMINAR
Tony Licata, Institute for Advanced Study
Heisenberg algebras and Hilbert schemes
Malott 406
Monday, February 13
11:15 AM SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND NUMERICS (SCAN) SEMINAR
Ashish Raj, Pascal Spincemaille, Yi Wang, Cornell University
MRI opportunities for advanced computational algorithms
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Upson 315
2:30 PM ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Joe Po-Chou Chen, Cornell University
Heat kernel, spectral zeta function, and quantum statistical mechanics on Sierpinski carpets
Malott 406
2:30 PM DISCRETE GEOMETRY AND COMBINATORICS SEMINAR
Yash Lodha, Cornell University
Cube complexes and subgroups of hyperbolic groups
Malott 206
4:00 PM COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY SEMINAR
Laszlo Vegh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Strongly polynomial algorithm for a class of minimum-cost flow problems with separable convex objectives
Upson 5130
Tuesday, February 14
1:30 PM

TOPOLOGY & GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY SEMINAR
CANCELED

Malott 203
2:55 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
Keita Yokayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Penn State University
On the reverse mathematics of Peano categoricity
Malott 206
4:15 PM ORIE COLLOQUIUM
Pierre Patie, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Asian options and Wiener-Hopf type factorization
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.
Rhodes 253
4:25 PM OLIVETTI CLUB
Shisen Luo, Cornell University
Martingale — a powerful tool for solving gambling problems
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.
Malott 406
Wednesday, February 15
4:00 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
David Belanger, Cornell University
Ramsey’s theorem for pairs II
Malott 206
4:15 PM STATISTICS SEMINAR
Susan Murphy, University of Michigan
Adaptive confidence intervals for non-regular parameters
Biotech G01
5:30 PM WHAT IS... SEMINAR
Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell University
What is the Sato-Tate conjecture?
Malott 207
Thursday, February 16
4:00 PM OLIVER CLUB
No talk today. Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.
Malott 532
Friday, February 17
3:30 PM CAM COLLOQUIUM
Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
Title TBA
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.
Rhodes 655
Monday, February 20
11:15 AM SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND NUMERICS (SCAN) SEMINAR
Changxi Zheng, Cornell University
Title TBA
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Upson 315
2:30 PM ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Peter Luthy, Cornell University
Title TBA
Malott 406
2:30 PM DISCRETE GEOMETRY AND COMBINATORICS SEMINAR
Lucas Sabalka, Binghamton University
f-vectors of subdivided simplicial complexes
Malott 206
4:00 PM COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY SEMINAR
Hyung-Chan An, Cornell University
Improving Christofides’ algorithm for the s-t path TSP
Upson 5130
4:00 PM PROBABILITY SEMINAR
Tianyi Zheng, Cornell University
Return probability for random walk on wreath product and related groups
Malott 406
Tuesday, February 21
OLIVER CLUB
Hendrik Lenstra, Universiteit Leiden
Modeling finite fields
Time and location to be arranged.
2:55 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
Chris Conidis, University of Waterloo
Title TBA
Malott 206
Wednesday, February 22
4:15 PM STATISTICS SEMINAR
Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University
Title TBA
Biotech G01

Last modified:February 13, 2012