Seminar Calendar
December 2014
Monday, December 1st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Tracking of Markovian Random Processes with Asymmetric Cost and Observation
Parisa Mansourifard,
Electrical Engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Higgs bundles, spectral data, and applications
Laura Schaposnik,
J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Urbana Champaign,
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Seminar
Cyclic Pursuit on Manifolds
Dmitri Gekhtman,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 2)
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The geometry of the Hitchin component
Richard Canary,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Approximating the best Nash Equilibrium in n^{o(log n)}-time breaks the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Omri Weinstein,
Princeton,
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The greatest ambit and the universal minimal flow from the Boolean algebra point of view
Dana Bartosova,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of San Paulo,
Friday, December 5th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Decouplings and applications
Ciprian Demeter,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups
Mark Hagen,
RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time (joint work with Claude Bardos, Irene Gamba, and Francois Golse)
David Levermore,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Stacks in Representation Theory (What is a continuous representation of an algebraic group?)
Joseph Bernstein,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
Thursday, December 11th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The eigencurve at classical weight one points
Mladen Dimitrov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University Lille 1,
Friday, December 12th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Polyhedra inscribed in quadrics, AdS and HP geometries
Sara Maloni,
Mathematics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Combinatorial methods on actions on character varieties
Sara Maloni,
Mathemtics,
Brown University,
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Taussky-Todd Lecture Series IV: Periods and global invariants of automorphic representations
Joseph Bernstein,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,