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Stanford University Department of Mathematics Seminar Schedule for the week of May 12, 2008

 

Monday, May 12

Institute for Theoretical Physics Special Seminar
1:30pm; Varian Labs, Room 355
Geoffrey Compere
“Setting the boundary free in AdS/CFT”

Special Colloquium
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Anatoly Vershik (Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg)
“Invariant measure on the graphs and metric spaces, and universal continuous graphs”

ICME Colloquium (joint with AHPCRC)
4:15pm; Gates Bldg., Room B12
Bernardo Huberman (HP Laboratories)
“Social dynamics in the age of the Web”

Probability Seminar
4:15pm; Sequoia Hall, Room 200
Harrie Willems
Film: Wolfgang Doeblin, A Mathematician Rediscovered


Tuesday, May 13

Topology Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
James McClure (Purdue)
“Commutativity for Quinn bordism-type spectra”

Mathematical Logic Seminar
4:15pm; Bldg 80, Room 115
Balder ten Cate (Amsterdam & IBM-Almaden)
“Abstract model theory for extensions of modal logic”


Wednesday, May 14

Combinatorics & Geometry Seminar
2:30pm, Bldg. 380, Room 380-F
Matt Kahle (Stanford)
“What we still don't know about unit distance in the Euclidean plane”

Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Jason Lo
TBA

Geometry Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Jesse Ratzkin
“Rigidity and deformations of constant mean curvature surfaces”

Special Topology Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 381-T
Nathan Habegger (Nantes)
“On the work of Xiao-Song Lin (1957–2007); from classical to quantum topology”

CSL Colloquium
4:15pm; Gates Bldg., Room B01
TBA

Linear Algebra/Optimization Seminar
4:15pm; Green Earth Sciences Bldg., Room B134

Osni Marques (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
“A Comparison of Eigensolvers for Electronic Structure Calculations”


Thursday, May 15

Department Colloquium
4:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-F
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK


Friday, May 16

Number Theory Seminar
12:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-D
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Analysis & PDE Seminar
2:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 381-T
NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED

Financial Math Seminar
7:30pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-C   (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME & VENUE)
Tanya Styblo Beder (SBCC)
“Great challenges of our time—What Wall Street needs mathematicians to solve”

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Mike Roth (Queens University)
“Cup products for line bundles on complete flag varieties”

Applied Mathematics Seminar
3:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-C
Joe Keller (Stanford)
“A metric approach to nonrigid shape analysis”


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