Seminar Calendar
January 2015
Monday, January 5th, 2015
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
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CMI Seminar
Leontief Exchange Markets Can Solve Multivariate Polynomial Equations, Yielding FIXP and ETR Hardness
Ruta Mehta,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 8th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Level raising mod 2 and arbitrary 2-Selmer ranks
Chao Li,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Eigencurve over the boundary of the weight space
Liang Xiao,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Connecticut,
Friday, January 9th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
The Interplay Between Structure of Finite Graphs and Maximal Averages on Their Cartesian Powers
Jordan Greenblatt,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Homology three-spheres and surgery obstructions
Tye Lidman,
RTG Instructor,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Well-posedness for the Cubic Dirac equation in the critical space
Ioan Bejenaru,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
The Euler-Maxwell system in 2D
Yu Deng,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Topics in quantum entropy and entanglement
Elliott Lieb,
Professor of Mathematics and Physics ,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Gauss-Bonnet theorem and scalar curvature for noncommutative two tori
Farzad Fathizadeh,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 15th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Generic elements in isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces
Maciej Malicki,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics,
Warsaw School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties in ramified characteristics
Kai-Wen Lan,
Assistant Professor,
School of Mathematics,
University of Minnesota,
Friday, January 16th, 2015
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A dilogarithm identity on the moduli space of curves
Feng Luo,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Poincare's work on Topology
David Gabai,
Chair, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Poincare's Work on Topology
David Gabai,
Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continues on Jan 27)
Piyush Srivastava,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Dirac Type Operators and Lie Groupoids
Pedram Hekmati,
Mathematics,
University of Adelaide,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Traffic Engineering: From Distributed Static Optimization to Centralized Transient Control
A. Kevin Tang,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Family Floer cohomology and mirror symmetry
Mohammed Abouzaid,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
A Random Pointwise Ergodic Theorem with Hardy Field Weights
Benjamin Krause,
Teaching Assistant,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Academic Wages, Singularities, Phase Transitions and Pyramid Schemes
Robert McCann,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
Monday, January 26th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on the plane
Izzet Coskum,
Professor,
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
UIC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Predictive Stochastic Modeling of Spatiotemporal Fluctuations in Signal-Activated Gene Regulation
Professor Brian Munsky,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering,
Colorado State University,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
12:00pm
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2:45pm
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Logic Seminar
One-ended subforests and strong treeability
Andrew Marks,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar - piyush2
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continued from Jan 20)
Piyush Srivastava,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The geometry of the Hilbert scheme of points on surfaces
Izzet Coskum,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UIC,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Entanglement and Geometry
Bogdan Stoica,
Graduate Student,
PMA,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On a motivic method in Diophantine geometry
Majid Hadian-Jazi,
Scott Russell Johnson Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Friday, January 30th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Proper action on Group Manifolds
Olivier Guichard,
Mathematics,
Université de Strasbourg, IRMA,