Seminar Calendar
May 2015
Friday, May 1st, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Set membership with two bit probes
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan,
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TBC),
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Heegaard Floer contact invariants for positive rational surgery
Tom Mark,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Virginia,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Do Online Social Networks Increase Welfare?
Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The Decomposition Theorem and Parity Sheaves
Carl Mautner,
Mathematics,
UC Riverside,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Microlocal Analysis on Representations, and Applications To Number Theory
Akshay Venkatesh,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry
Spectral Triples and Toeplitz Operators
Bruno Iochum,
Mathematics,
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,
Friday, May 8th, 2015
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Teichmüller space is rigid
Kasra Rafi,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
Monday, May 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning
Professor Richard G. Baraniuk,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Founder and Director, OpenStax ,
Rice University,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Almost treeability
Robin Tucker-Drob,
NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mathematical Sciences,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Semnar
On the structure of the spectrum of small sets
Alejandro Morales,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Crossed Product Extensions of Spectral Triples
Bruno Iochum,
Mathematics,
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Vanishing theorems for mixed Hodge modules and applications
Junecue Suh,
Assistant Professor,
PBSci-Mathematics Department,
UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, May 15th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Kolmogorov width of discrete linear spaces: an approach to matrix rigidity
Sergey Yekhanin,
Microsoft Research,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Fields Medalist Stanislav Smirnov
The Ising Model of a Ferromagnet from 1920 to the Present Day
Stanislav Smirnov,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Geneva; St. Petersburg State University,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
On the structure of the spectrum of small sets
Kaave Hosseini,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Nonabelian Generalized Lax pairs, Post-Lie Algebras and Related Operadic Structures
Xiang Ni,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Menger compacta as projective Fraisse limits with emphasis on dimension one
Slawomir Solecki,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
When Algebraic Geometry Meets Graph Theory
Mohamed Omar,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd,
Friday, May 29th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Dynamics for the random-cluster model
Alistair Sinclair,
Professor,
EECS,
UC Berkeley/Simons Institute,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Tian Yang,
Szego Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain
Marius Lemm,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain
Nestor Guillen,
U Mass Amherst,