Seminar Calendar
October 2015
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots
Ken Baker,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Miami,
Monday, October 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Mathematical and Experimental Frameworks to Study Fluctuations in Cells
Professor Johan Paulsson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the structure of band edges of 2d periodic elliptic operators
Ilya Kachkovsky,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Toward mathematical characterization of "topological" phases of matter
Alexei Kitaev,
Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On a Filtration of CH0 for an Abelian Variety A
Valia Gazaki,
University of Chicago,
Friday, October 9th, 2015
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Corrin Clarkson,
Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Ben Krause,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, October 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
K-Stability for Fano Varieties with Torus Action
Nathan Ilten,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Simon Fraser University,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Recovering elliptic curves from their p-torsion
Jacob Tsimmerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Andre-Oort and other problems in Unlikely intersections
Jacob Tsimerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Regularity theory for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations
Tianling Jin,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Furstenberg-Poisson boundary 101
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Humanities and Social Science,
Caltech,
Friday, October 16th, 2015
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Algebraic Knots, Upsilon invariant and optimal cobordisms
Shida Wang,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
Monday, October 19th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar in Applied & Computational Mathematics
A Hybrid Framework with Analysis for Stochastic Wave Propagation Models
Mahadevan Ganesh,
College of Engineering & Computational Sciences,
Colorado School of Mines,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Strange duality of Conformal Blocks
Swarnava Mukhopadhyay,
Brin Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Sub-Linear Time Algorithms for "Big Data" Recovery Based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Professor Kannan Ramchandran,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains
Stergios Antonakoudis,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Dimension reduction for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates with anisotropic confinement
Christof Sparber,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Holographic Entropy Cone
Ning Bao,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Analysis of a Classical Matrix Preconditioning Algorithm
Leonard Schulman,
Professor of Computer Science,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Theory of Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems with Applications in Energy Systems
Shuo Han,
Electrical & Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Unexpected distribution phenomenon resulting from Cantor series expansions
Dylan Airey,
Undergraduate Student,
Mathematics,
University of Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The motivic class of the complement of arrangements associated to finite groups
Ivan Marino,
SNSF- Post Doc,
Mathematics,
University of Fribourg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 23rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Learning Seminar
An Introduction to Mumford-Tate groups
Emad Nasrollahpoursamami,
Grad Student,
mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, October 26th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
What makes a neural code convex?
Nora Youngs,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College,
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An Adiabatic Theorem for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
Gang Zhou,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
TBA
Zeev Dvir,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Mathematics,
Princeton,
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar
Functional Reactive Programming for Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems: Response Time Analysis, Scheduling, and Verification
Albert M. K. Cheng,
Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Houston, Texas,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Number Theory Seminar
TBA
M. Hadi Hedayatzadeh,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Purdue,
Friday, October 30th, 2015
10:00am
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10/31
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The Seventh Annual Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory
Off Campus
The Seventh Annual SoCal NEGT
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Gauge theory on G2-manifolds
Thomas Walpushi,
C L E Moore Instructor,
Mathematics,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Learning Seminar
Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures
Pablo Solis,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,