Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Fall 2009 Events

Thur 9/10 4:30 WeH 6423	ACO Seminar Eyal Lubetzky Microsoft Research Anatomy of a young giant component in the random graph
Mon 9/14 4:30 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Zuoquan Xu Department of Mathematics Oxford University Optimal Stopping with Prospect Preference
Tue 9/15 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Jon Wilkening UC Berkeley Computation of time-periodic solutions of nonlinear PDE
Tue 9/15 2:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Patrick Dondl University of Bonn Pinning of interfaces in random media
Thur 9/17 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Amy Novick-Cohen Grain boundary motion in thin films
Thur 9/17 4:30 WeH 6423	ACO Seminar Pal Melsted Space Utilization of Cuckoo Hashtables
Mon 9/21 4:30 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Tim Leung Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics John Hopkins University Exponential Hedging with Optimal Stopping in Incomplete Markets
Tue 9/22 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Gianni Dal Maso SISSA Quasistatic evolution for Cam-Clay plasticity
Thu 9/24 4:30 GHC 7501	ACO Seminar Adam Smith Penn State University Lower Bounds on Error in Private Data Analysis and Connections to the Spectra of Random Matrices
Mon 9/28 5:00 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Kasper Larsen Carnegie Mellon University The equity premium puzzle and unspanned random endowment
Tue 9/29 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Beatrice Riviere Rice University Multiphysics couplings in porous media
Mon 10/5 4:30 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Holger Kraft Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Large Traders and Illiquid Options: Hedging vs. Manipulation
Tue 10/6 12:00 DH 4304	Math Logic Seminar William Boney, Carnegie Mellon University Model theory of L_{omega_1, omega}
Tue 10/6 1:30 PPB300	CNA Seminar Johannes Zimmer University of Bath Dynamic problems in plasticity and related function spaces
Mon 10/12 5:00 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Ton Dieker Georgia Institute of Technology
Thur 10/22 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Enrico Valdinoci Universita di Roma Tor Vergata Geometric properties of semilinear PDEs and applications
Thu 10/22 4:30 GHC 6423	ACO Seminar Michal Karonski Emory University and Adam Mickiewicz University On the 1-2-3 conjecture
Mon 10/26 5:00 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Maxim Bichuch Carnegie Mellon University Asymptotic Analysis for Optimal Investment with Transaction Costs in Finite Time
Tue 10/27 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Ning Jiang Courant Institue, New York University Kinetic-Fluid Boundary Layers and Applications to Hydrodynamic Limits of Boltzmann Equation
Tue 10/29 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Stefan Kroemer Carnegie Mellon University On the role of lower bounds in characterizations of weak lower semicontinuity
Thu 10/29 4:30 GHC 6423	ACO Seminar Pawel Pralat West Virginia University Chasing robbers on random graphs
Fri 10/30 4:00 Thack. 704 U. Pitt	University of Pittsburgh Colloquium Giovanni Leoni Carnegie Mellon University Exact Reconstruction of Color Images by a total Variation Model
Mon 11/2 4:30 WeH 6423	THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED Probability/Math Finance Seminar Sebastian Jaimungal University of Toronto
Tue 11/3 12:00 DH 4303	Math Logic Seminar Peter Lumsdaine Carnegie Mellon University Fixed-point theorems, constructively
Tue 11/3 1:30 WeH 6423	CNA Seminar Nicola Fusco Equilibrium configurations of epitaxially strained elastic films: qualitative properties of solutions
Mon 11/9 4:30 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Sunder Sethuraman Iowa State University Some asymptotics in preferential attachment random graphs in a randon environment
Tue 11/10 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Kaushik Bhattacharya California Institute of Technology Variational problems motivated by soft elastomer actuators
Thu 11/12 4:30 GHC 6423	ACO Seminar Zed Yilma Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Set systems without a strong simplex
Mon 11/16 5:00 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Jan Vecer Department of Statistics, Columbia University Change of Numeraire with Perspective Mapping
Tue 11/17 1:30 WeH 6423	CNA Seminar Ravi Srinivasan University of Texas at Austin and Duke University Kinetic theory and Lax equations for shock clustering and Burgers turbulence
Thu 11/19 4:30 GHC 6423	ACO Seminar Gabor Kun DIMACS and Institute for Advanced Study Proof of the Bollobas-Catlin-Eldridge conjecture
Mon 11/23 5:00 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar David Goldberg MIT PTAS for maximum weight independent set problem with random weights in bounded degree graphs
Mon 11/30 5:00 WeH 6423	Probability/Math Finance Seminar Gautam Iyer Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University A stochastic-Lagrangian approach to the Navier-Stokes equations.
Tue 12/1 12:00 DH 4303	Math Logic Seminar Ed Dean, CMU Randomness III
Tue 12/1 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Max Morini SISSA Geometrically constrained walls in two dimensions.
Thu 12/3 4:30 GHC 6423	ACO Seminar Mihyun Kang Technische Universitaet Berlin Phase transition of uniform random graphs: Erd"os-R'enyi graphs vs planar graphs
Tue 12/15 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Diogo Gomes Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Non-convex Hamiltonians and Aubry-Mather measures
Thu 12/17 1:30 PPB 300	CNA Seminar Jim Kelliher University of California, Riverside Infinite-energy 2D statistical solutions to the equations of incompressible fluids