Mathematical Colloquia and Seminars

November 5 – November 18, 2009

Thursday, November 5
4:25 PM OLIVER CLUB
No talk today. Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.
Malott 406
Friday, November 6
2:15 PM DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University
Bony and thick attractors
Malott 205
3:30 PM CAM COLLOQUIUM
David Hiebeler, University of Maine
Modeling outbreaks in structured populations and the internet
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.
Rhodes 655
Monday, November 9
1:25 PM SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND NUMERICS (SCAN) SEMINAR
Jessica Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
High fidelity geometric modeling and finite element mesh generation from volumetric imaging data with applications in computational mechanics
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Upson 5126
2:30 PM ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Artem Pulemotov, Cornell University
Gradient estimates for the heat equation on manifolds with boundary
Malott 406
2:30 PM DISCRETE GEOMETRY AND COMBINATORICS SEMINAR
Russ Woodroofe, Washington University
Chordal clutters and k-decomposability
Malott 206
4:00 PM PROBABILITY SEMINAR
John Mayberry, Cornell University
Traveling waves of selective sweeps
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 10
1:30 PM TOPOLOGY & GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY SEMINAR
Matt Rathbun, University of California at Davis
High distance knots in any 3-manifold
Malott 203
2:55 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
Paul Shafer, Cornell University
Medvedev degrees of Pi-0-1 classes II
Malott 206
4:15 PM ORIE COLLOQUIUM
Dan Bienstock, Columbia University
Using Eigenvalue techniques to obtain better bounds for convex objective, non-convex optimization problems
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.
Rhodes 253
4:25 PM OLIVETTI CLUB
Jenna Rajchgot, Cornell University
Title TBA
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 11
1:30 PM COMPUTATIONAL AND COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR
Gregory Muller, Cornell University
Noncommutative CM rings
Malott 420C
4:00 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
Johanna Franklin, Fields Institute and University of Waterloo
n-r.e. randomness
Malott 206
4:00 PM STATISTICS SEMINAR
Ana-Maria Staicu, NCSU
Generalized multilevel functional regression
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.
Malott 406
5:30 PM TEACHING SEMINAR
Jennifer Biermann, Cornell University
Teaching jobs for graduate students - ways to get your stipend
Malott 207
Thursday, November 12
1:30 PM TOPOLOGY & GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY SEMINAR
Kim Ruane, Tufts University
Automorphism groups of graph products
Malott 203
4:25 PM OLIVER CLUB
Andrei Caldararu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Pfaffian-Grassmannian derived equivalence
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.
Malott 406
Friday, November 13
2:15 PM DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
When the noise is the signal: stochastic synchronization in neurons
Malott 205
3:30 PM CAM COLLOQUIUM
G. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Reading the thoughts of a mollusk: the neural origins of seashell structure and pattern
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.
Rhodes 655
3:30 PM LIE GROUPS SEMINAR
Andrei Caldararu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A conjecture of Duflo and the Ext algebra of branes
Malott 406
Monday, November 16
1:25 PM SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND NUMERICS (SCAN) SEMINAR
Stefan Wild, Argonne National lab
Estimating computational noise in numerical simulations
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Upson 5126
2:30 PM ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Brian Street, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Multi-parameter Carnot-Carathéodory geometry
Malott 406
2:30 PM DISCRETE GEOMETRY AND COMBINATORICS SEMINAR
Justin Lambright, Lehigh University
A combinatorial interpretation for computations in the quantum polynomial ring
Malott 206
4:00 PM PROBABILITY SEMINAR
Daniel Remenik, Cornell University
Brunet-Derrida particle systems, free boundary problems and Wiener-Hopf equations
Malott 406
Tuesday, November 17
1:30 PM TOPOLOGY & GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY SEMINAR
Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
Automata generating free products of groups of order 2
Malott 203
2:55 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
Vivienne Morley, Cornell University
The Cantor-Bendixson derivative, rank and Pi-0-1 classes
Malott 206
4:15 PM ORIE COLLOQUIUM
Mark Lewis, Cornell University
Title TBA
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.
Rhodes 253
4:25 PM OLIVETTI CLUB
Paul Shafer, Cornell University
Title TBA
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.
Malott 406
Wednesday, November 18
1:30 PM COMPUTATIONAL AND COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR
Michael Stillman, Cornell University
Computing integral closure
Malott 420C
4:00 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University
Topological semantics for modal S4
Malott 206
4:00 PM STATISTICS SEMINAR
Brett Presnell, University of Florida
Title TBA
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in Malott 301.
Malott 406

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