Seminar Calendar
April 2014
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
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13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics
Random Walks and their Scaling Limits
Gregory F. Lawler,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Singularities and why we love them: universal behaviors in geometric heat flows
Dan Knopf,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Univ. of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Arlases consisting of Bruhat cells
Allen Knutson,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Cornell University,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On level 1 algebraic cusp forms of classical groups
Gaetan Chenevier,
Professor,
Mathematics,
École Polytechnique ,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics
Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part II
Gregory F. Lawler,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
Friday, April 4th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition
Hamid Nazerzadeh,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Seiberg-Witten Floer KO-theory and intersection forms of spin 4-manifolds
Jianfen Lin,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Congruent skein relations for quantum invariants of links
Qingtao Chen,
Professor,
Mathematics,
ICTP,
Monday, April 7th, 2014
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics
Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part III
Gregory F. Lawler,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Spatio-Temporal Correlation Mining
Professor Alfred Hero,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
University of Michigan ,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An inverse spectral problem for Hankel operators
Alexander Pushnitski,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
King's College London,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Some Hurewicz-like tests on the product of two Polish spaces
Rafael Zamora,
Mathematics,
University of Paris,
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Determination of quadratic forms by their representation numbers
Vinayak Vatsal,
Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-adic distribution of period integrals for unitary groups
Eric Urban,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Columbia,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Achieving Target Equilibria in Network Routing Games without Knowing the Latency Functions
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Framed instantons and Khovanov homology
Christopher Scaduto,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
Monday, April 14th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Function approximation on unstructured data
Hrushikesh Mhaskar,
Visiting Associate,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Friday, April 18th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Welfare-Maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions (joint with Isa Hafalir)
Antonio Miralles,
Assistant Professor,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Monday, April 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The mean-field limit of Bosons in the Heisenberg picture
Antti Knowles,
Mathematics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Non-commutative strict higher C*-categories
Paolo Bertozzini,
Mathematics,
Thammasat University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Statistical Learning and Optimization Based on Comparative Judgements
Robert Nowak,
McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Random partitions and weak containment of the Bernoulli shift (after Abert and Weiss)
Peter Burton,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Albanese quotients of Picard modular surfaces, and rational points
Mladen Dimitrov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University Lille 1,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
3:00pm
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Distinguishing topologically and smoothly doubly slice knots
Jeffrey Meier,
Mathematics,
University of Texas, Austin,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A diagrammatic categorification of a Clifford algebra via contact topology
Yin Tian,
Mathematics,
USC,
Monday, April 28th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
"Green kernels for Schrödinger equations"
Ari Laptev,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Incidences, Polynomial Partitioning, and Hilbert Polynomials
Adam Sheffer,
Tel Aviv University,
Mathematics,
Tel Aviv University,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Universality and regularity of the integration operator
Vassilis Nestoridis,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Athens,