Fall 2008

IAS/PCMI Summer Program: Analytic and Algebraic Geometry: Common Problems - Different Methods

Geometry and Representation Theory of Tensors for Computer Science, Statistics, and other areas

• Joseph Landsberg, Complexity of matrix multiplication, an overview of Ch. 2 including tensors, rank of tensors, and wiring diagrams. July 7,2008, 09:15 AM to 10:15 AM
  
• Jason Morton, Algebraic varieties § 3.1, 3.2. Basic definitions from algebraic geometry: projective space, variety, ideal, Zariski topology. Segre, Veronese, and other examples of varieties. Graphical models and motivating examples in statistics and information t July 7,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Lek-Heng Lim, Tensor approximations July 7,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Jason Morton, Finish Ch. 2: skew-symmetric tensors, equations for rank at most r linear mappings, border rank, decomposing V^{\ot 3}., G-modules, isotypic components. § 4.1,2 Representations, Schur's Lemma, G-modules and decomposing spaces of tensors July 8,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, § 3.3,4,5,6 Tangent spaces to varieties, joins, cones, secant varieties, their dimension, Terracini's lemma. July 8,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Vin de Silva, Notions of tensor ranks: rank, border rank, multilinear rank, nonnegative rank July 8,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• David Gross, What is quantum information theory? July 8,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, Finish Chap 3 - Terracini's lemma cont'd and applications to computing the dimension of secant varieties. The geometric definition of border rank, projective second fundamental form. July 9,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Jason Morton, § 4.3,4,5 - Representations of the symmetric group, Young diagrams, Young symmetrizers and wiring diagrams. Using these tools to decompose V^{\otimes d} as a GL(V) module. Schur-Weyl Duality. July 9,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Lek-Heng Lim, Conditioning, computations, applications July 9,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Jason Morton, Toric varieties, toric ideals, moment map, exponential families. July 10,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, § 4.6,7,8 Highest weight vectors, bases of highest weight space. Ideals of Segre, Veronese varieties and homogeneous varieties in general, decomposing S^d(A_1\otimes \cdots \otimes A_n), characters. July 10,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Vin de Silva, Constructibility of the set of tensors of a given rank July 10,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Luis Garcia-Puente, Phylogenetic algebraic geometry July 10,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Jason Morton, finish Ch 4 (Littlewood-Richardson rule and other handy formulas, more decompositions of spaces of tensors) July 11,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, § 5.1-5.3 Equations for secant varieties I: special Segre varieties, subspace varieties, flattenings July 11,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Vin de Silva, Hyperdeterminants and optimal approximability July 11,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• David Gross, What are graph states? July 11,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Jason Morton, § 5.4, 5.5 Equations II: inheritance, and prolongation July 14,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, § 5.6 Equations III: Strassen's equations and variants July 14,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Vin de Silva, Uniqueness of tensor decomposition, direct sum conjecture July 14,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Risi Kondor, Non-commutative harmonic analysis in machine learning July 14,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, § 6.1,6.2,6.6,6.7 The Alexander-Hirshowitz theorem and dimensions of secant varieties of Segre varieties July 15,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Jason Morton, Ch 7. An algorithm for explicitly writing down polynomials in a given submodule of the space of polynomials. Further combinatorics of Young tableaux. Working with tensors in factored vs. expanded form. July 15,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, Ch 8: Rank vs border rank of tensors and symmetric tensors July 15,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Luke Oeding, The variety of principal minors of symmetric matrices July 15,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Pierre Comon, (a) general statements on linear mixtures of random variables, (b)cumulants, (c) tensors July 16,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Jerzy Weyman, What do the words "ACM", "Gorenstein", and " rational singularites" mean and why are these properties useful? July 16,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Lek-Heng Lim, Nonnegative hypermatrices, symmetric tensors July 16,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Pierre Comon, (d) the invertible case: Independent Component Analysis - optimization criteria and some numerical algorithms July 17,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Jerzy Weyman, Introduction to the study of G-varieties via desingularizations by homogeneous vector bundles July 17,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Joseph Landsberg, Ch 9: Spaces of tensors admitting normal forms July 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• S. Friedland, Student Lecture July 17,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Pierre Comon, (e) the UDM case: some selected statistical blind identification approaches, all involving tensors. Local identifiability and numerical algorithms (including BIOME and FOOBI). July 18,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Giorgio Ottaviani, Induction for the rank of tensors July 18,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• , Student Lecture July 18,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Giorgio Ottaviani, The Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem July 18,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  

Climate Change - Summer Graduate Workshop

Climate Change Summer School

Mathematics Professional Development Institute (Wu Summer Institute)

Bay Area Circle for Teachers

Low Dimensional Topology

• Michael Freedman, Towards Quantum Characteristic Classes August 11,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Stefano Vidussi, Twisted Alexander Polynomials and Fibrations of 3-manifolds August 11,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Ronald Stern, 4-manifolds, Big and Small August 11,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Sergei Gukov, Knot Homologies via Instanton Counting August 12,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:40 AM
  
• Dror Bar-Natan, Projectivization, W-Knots, Kashiwara-Vergne and Alekseev-Torossian August 12,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Denis Auroux, Broken Lefschetz fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds August 12,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Ko Honda, Contact structures, Heegaard Floer homology and triangulated categories August 13,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Anna Beliakova, Unified Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of rational homology 3-spheres August 13,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Robion Kirby, The origin of the calculus (not Newton's) August 13,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Mikhail Khovanov, Categorification of quantum groups August 14,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Andras Juhasz, Sutured Floer homology and Seifert surfaces August 14,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Peter Ozsvath, Heegaard Floer homology August 14,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Slava Krushkal, 4-manifolds and the A-B slice problem August 15,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Constance Leidy, Knot Concordance and Higher-Order Blanchfield Duality August 15,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
  
• Clifford Taubes, The Seiberg-Witten equations and dynamics of vector fields in dimension 3 August 15,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  

Broader Connections: Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics

• Vitaly Bergelson, An Introduction to Ideas and Methods of Ergodic Ramsey Theory August 21,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Izabella Laba, Harmonic Analysis and Additive Combinatorics August 21,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Tamar Ziegler, An introduction to characteristic factors in ergodic theory August 21,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Akshay Venkatesh, An introduction to homogeneous dynamics August 21,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
  
• Vitaly Bergelson, An Introduction to Ideas and Methods of Ergodic Ramsey Theory August 22,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Izabella Laba, Harmonic Analysis and Additive Combinatorics August 22,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Tamar Ziegler, An introduction to characteristic factors in ergodic theory August 22,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Akshay Venkatesh, An introduction to homogeneous dynamics August 22,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
  

Introduction to Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics

• Bernard Host, Nilmanifolds in ergodic theory, I August 25,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Endre Szemeredi, On the sumsets of infinite sequences August 25,2008, 11:10 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Bernard Host, Nilmanifolds in ergodic theory, II August 25,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Nikos Frantzikinakis, Szemeredi's theorem and Hardy fields August 25,2008, 04:10 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Vitaly Bergelson, An Introduction to Diophantine Dynamics August 26,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Bernard Host, Nilmanifolds in ergodic theory, III August 26,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Izabella Laba, Arithmetic progressions in sets of fractional dimension August 26,2008, 02:00 PM to 02:50 PM
  
• Thierry de la Rue, Random Fibonacci sequences August 26,2008, 04:10 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Ben Green, Progressions in primes, I August 27,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Vitaly Bergelson, Ergodic Ramsey theory and amenable groups August 27,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Terence Tao, Correspondence principle and finitary ergodic theory, I August 28,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Ben Green, Progressions in primes, II August 28,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Terence Tao, Correspondence principle and finitary ergodic theory, II August 28,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Tom Sanders, Roth's theorem in additive combinatorics August 28,2008, 04:10 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Ben Green, Progressions in primes, III August 29,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Terence Tao, Correspondence principle and finitary ergodic theory, III August 29,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Tamar Ziegler, An inverse theorem for the uniformity seminorms associated with the action of \F_p^\infty. August 29,2008, 02:00 PM to 02:50 PM
  
• Benjamin Weiss, Connections between Ramsey theory for trees and Markov processes August 29,2008, 04:10 PM to 05:00 PM
  

Broader Connections: Analysis on Singular Spaces

• Thalia Jeffres, Differential operators August 28,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Thalia Jeffres, Differential operators August 28,2008, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  
• Eugenie Hunsicker, Introduction to pseudodifferential operators August 28,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Paul Loya, Index theory I August 28,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Paul Loya, Index theory II August 29,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Tanya Christiansen, Scattering theory August 29,2008, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
  
• Eugenie Hunsicker, Hodge theory August 29,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
  

Introductory Workshop on Analysis on Singular Spaces

• Michael Taylor, Pseudodifferential Operators on Singular Spaces I September 2,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Richard Melrose, Real Blow-ups I September 2,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Maciej Zworski, Spectral and Scattering Theory I September 2,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Michael Taylor, Pseudodifferential Operators on Singular Spaces II September 2,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Gerd Grubb, Introduction to Index Theory September 2,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Michael Taylor, Pseudodifferential Operators on Singular Spaces III September 3,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Richard Melrose, Real Blow-ups II September 3,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Tanya Christiansen, Spectral and Scattering theory, II September 3,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Gilles Carron, Cohomology, I September 3,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Gerd Grubb, Introduction to Index Theory II September 3,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Michael Taylor, Pseudodifferential Operators on Singular Spaces September 4,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Richard Melrose, Real Blow-ups III September 4,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Gilles Carron, Cohomology, II September 4,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Gerd Grubb, Introduction to Index Theory III September 4,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Maciej Zworski, Spectral and Scattering theory, III September 5,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Paul Loya, Index Theory on Singular Spaces, I September 5,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Tanya Christiansen, Spectral and Scattering theory, IV September 5,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Gilles Carron, Cohomology, III September 5,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Paul Loya, Index Theory on Singular Spaces, II September 5,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
  

Topology of Stratified Spaces

• Xianzhe Dai, An introduction to L^2 cohomology September 8,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Gilles Carron, L2 cohomology of QALE space September 8,2008, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  
• Les Saper, Cohomology of compactifications of locally symmetric spaces September 8,2008, 01:15 PM to 02:15 PM
  
• Paolo Piazza, The signature operator on Witt spaces (joint work with Pierre Albin, Eric Leichtnam and Rafe Mazzeo) September 8,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Markus Banagl, The Signature of Singular Spaces and its Refinements to Generalized Homology Theories. September 9,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Sylvain Cappell, Replacement of fixed points of group actions September 9,2008, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  
• Shmuel Weinberger, Stratified Surgery and Functoriality September 9,2008, 01:15 PM to 02:15 PM
  
• Clinton McCrory, The weight filtration for real algebraic varieties September 9,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Jim Fowler, Lattices with torsion and rational homology manifolds September 9,2008, 04:00 PM to 04:30 PM
  
• Filipp Levikov, The (intersection) homology groups of a fibre bundle over a sphere September 9,2008, 04:30 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Anatoly Libgober, Elliptic genus of singular varieties September 10,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Daniel Matei, Cohomology of complements to algebraic plane curves September 10,2008, 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
  
• Lee McEwan, Monodromy of curves and quasi-ordinary surfaces September 10,2008, 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM
  
• Mikhail Mazin, Leray-type Operators for Stratified Spaces and the Parshin's Reciprocity Law for Residues September 10,2008, 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Robert Waelder, Singular Elliptic Genus of Normal Surfaces September 11,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Sandor Kovacs, Singularities in the Minimal Model Program September 11,2008, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  
• Shoji Yokura, Motivic Characteristic classes of singulare varieties September 11,2008, 01:15 PM to 02:15 PM
  
• Mark de Cataldo, The perverse filtration and the Lefschetz Hyperplane Theorem September 11,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Ludmil Katzarkov, Hodge Structures and Homological Mirror Symmetry September 12,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Gregory Pearlstein, Singularities of Normal Functions September 12,2008, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  
• Joerg Schuermann, Characteristic classes of mixed Hodge modules September 12,2008, 01:15 PM to 02:15 PM
  
• Matt Kerr, Hodge theory of Calabi-Yau fibrations September 12,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
  

Math Institutes Modern Mathematics Workshop

Statistical and Computational Challenges in Next-Generation Sequencing

Promoting Diversity at the Graduate Level in Mathematics: a National Forum

• Sylvia Bozeman, Welcome, Overview, Articulation of Goals October 15,2008, 09:00 AM to 09:30 AM
  
• Trachette Jackson, Plenary Talk October 15,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Abbe Herzig, "Framing the Issues: What the Data Show, and What We Know" October 15,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Rachelle DeCoste, Leona Harris, "The Students' Perspective - Navigating through Critical Transition Points" October 15,2008, 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Rachelle DeCoste, Leona Harris, "The Students' Perspective - Navigating through Critical Transition Points" October 15,2008, 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Deanna Haunsperger, Cora Sadosky, "The Faculty Respond" October 15,2008, 03:30 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Deanna Haunsperger, Cora Sadosky, "The Faculty Respond" October 15,2008, 03:30 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Deborah Lockhart, "Why a diverse community matters, NSF initative on Broadening Participation." October 16,2008, 09:15 AM to 09:30 AM
  
• Shirley Malcom, Karen Uhlenbeck, "Mathematics Faculty, Mathematics Students: Why Do They Look so Different?" October 16,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Shirley Malcom, Karen Uhlenbeck, Women and Math Program at the Institute for Advanced Study October 16,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Ellen Kirkman, "Framing the Issues: What the Data Show, and What We Know about Diversity in the Mathematics Community" October 16,2008, 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM
  
• David Manderscheid, What Can be Done to Broaden Participation in the Mathematical Sciences? October 16,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  
• Teresa Edwards, Dusa McDuff, The Students Speak October 16,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Teresa Edwards, Dusa McDuff, The Students Speak October 16,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM
  
• Garikai Campbell, Alina Cojocaru, Emille Davie, Laura DeMarco, Trachette Jackson, Beatrice Riviere, "A Diversity of Careers in Mathematics" October 17,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Garikai Campbell, Alina Cojocaru, Emille Davie, Laura DeMarco, Trachette Jackson, Beatrice Riviere, "A Diversity of Careers in Mathematics" October 17,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Garikai Campbell, Alina Cojocaru, Emille Davie, Laura DeMarco, Trachette Jackson, Beatrice Riviere, "A Diversity of Careers in Mathematics" October 17,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Garikai Campbell, Alina Cojocaru, Emille Davie, Laura DeMarco, Trachette Jackson, Beatrice Riviere, "A Diversity of Careers in Mathematics" October 17,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Garikai Campbell, Alina Cojocaru, Emille Davie, Laura DeMarco, Trachette Jackson, Beatrice Riviere, "A Diversity of Careers in Mathematics" October 17,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Garikai Campbell, Alina Cojocaru, Emille Davie, Laura DeMarco, Trachette Jackson, Beatrice Riviere, "A Diversity of Careers in Mathematics" October 17,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  
• Joshua Aronson, Low numbers: stereotype threat and the performance of women and minorities October 17,2008, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
  
• Duane Cooper, Edray Goins, Ruth Haas, Yi Liu, John Meakin, Janis Oldham, Thomas Scanlon, "A Tale of Two Cultures" October 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  
• Duane Cooper, Edray Goins, Ruth Haas, Yi Liu, John Meakin, Janis Oldham, Thomas Scanlon, "A Tale of Two Cultures" October 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  
• Duane Cooper, Edray Goins, Ruth Haas, Yi Liu, John Meakin, Janis Oldham, Thomas Scanlon, "A Tale of Two Cultures" October 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  
• Duane Cooper, Edray Goins, Ruth Haas, Yi Liu, John Meakin, Janis Oldham, Thomas Scanlon, "A Tale of Two Cultures" October 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  
• Duane Cooper, Edray Goins, Ruth Haas, Yi Liu, John Meakin, Janis Oldham, Thomas Scanlon, "A Tale of Two Cultures" October 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  
• Duane Cooper, Edray Goins, Ruth Haas, Yi Liu, John Meakin, Janis Oldham, Thomas Scanlon, "A Tale of Two Cultures" October 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  
• Duane Cooper, Edray Goins, Ruth Haas, Yi Liu, John Meakin, Janis Oldham, Thomas Scanlon, "A Tale of Two Cultures" October 17,2008, 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
  

Elliptic and Hyperbolic Equations on Singular Spaces

• Giles Lebeau, A Probabilistic Viewpoint October 27,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Andrew Hassell, Restriction theorems on asymptotically conic manifolds October 27,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Gregory Eskin, Inverse hyperbolic problems and optical(acoustic)black holes. October 27,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Steven Zelditch, The Cauchy problem for the homogeneous Monge Ampere geodesic equation October 27,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
  
• Daniel Tataru, Global parametrices and decay for wave and Schroedinger evolutions on asymptotically flat backgrounds October 28,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Nicolas Burq, "The resonant Hermite-Schr\"odinger equation on the sphere" October 28,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Mark Stern, Minimal Energy Yang-Mills connections and interpolating instantons. October 28,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Tanya Christiansen, "The scattering matrix, sojourn times, and an inverse problem for planar waveguide October 28,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
  
• Colin Guillarmou, Millson formula for infinite volume case, and the odd zeta Selberg function. October 29,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Rafe Mazzeo, ``Flexibility of singular Einstein metrics'' October 29,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Marius Mitrea, Boundary Problems for the Laplacian in Convex Domains October 30,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Robin Graham, 11 dimensional supergravity and asymptotically hyperbolic scattering October 30,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Bert-Wolfgang Schulze, "The Iterative Structure of Corner Operators" October 30,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• András Vasy, "Wave propagation and high energy resolvent estimates for De Sitter - Schwarzchild space October 31,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Maciej Zworski, Quantization on fractal trapped sets in scattering by convex obstacles October 31,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Victor Ivrii, Dynamics and Spectral Asymptotics October 31,2008, 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
  

Discrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics

• Ben Green, Discrete Rigidity Phenomena November 3,2008, 09:00 AM to 09:45 AM
  
• Alexander Gamburd, Uniform spectral gap bounds November 3,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM
  
• Bernard Host, How does one recognize a nilsequence? November 3,2008, 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Mei-Chu Chang, Sum-Product and Character Sums in finite fields November 3,2008, 02:15 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Emmanue Breuillard, A strong Tits Alternative and Arithmetic Heights November 4,2008, 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
  
• Harald Helfgott, Growth in SL3 November 4,2008, 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Avi Wigderson, Randomness Extractors November 4,2008, 01:45 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Tom Sanders, Freiman-type theorems in nonabelian groups November 4,2008, 02:35 PM to 03:20 PM
  
• Tamar Ziegler, Multiple recurrence along the shifted primes November 4,2008, 03:45 PM to 04:30 PM
  
• Manfred Einsiedler, Rigidity of unipotent joinings in positive characteristic November 5,2008, 09:00 AM to 09:45 AM
  
• Ryan O'Donnell, Inverse Theorems and Inapproximability November 5,2008, 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM
  
• Elon Lindenstrauss, On stationary measures and random walks on tori. November 5,2008, 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• James Lee, Eigenvalue multiplicity and growth of groups November 6,2008, 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
  
• Adrian Ubis, The horocycle flow and primes November 6,2008, 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Jean Bourgain, Extension of Selberg's theorem and sieving in November 6,2008, 01:45 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Akshay Venkatesh, Uniform distribution and Hecke Operators November 6,2008, 02:35 PM to 03:20 PM
  
• Hillel Furstenberg, Additive Combinatorics and Piecewise Bohr Subsets of N November 6,2008, 04:00 PM to 04:45 PM
  
• Julia Wolf, Decompositions into polynomial phase functions November 7,2008, 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
  
• Luca Trevisan, A Boosting proof of the weak regularity lemma November 7,2008, 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Hamed Hatami, Graph norms and Sidorenko's conjecture November 7,2008, 01:45 PM to 02:30 PM
  
• Terence Tao, Distribution of Orbits on NIlmanifolds November 7,2008, 02:35 PM to 03:20 PM
  

Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar

International Conference on Cluster Algebras and Related Topics

Using Partnerships to Strengthen Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education

• Deborah Ball, William McCallum, Introduction to the Workshop December 11,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:15 AM
  
• Deborah Ball, William McCallum, Introduction to the Workshop December 11,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:15 AM
  
• Ruth Heaton, Jim Lewis, The Mathematics Semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln December 11,2008, 10:40 AM to 12:20 PM
  
• Ruth Heaton, Jim Lewis, The Mathematics Semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln December 11,2008, 10:40 AM to 12:20 PM
  
• Ruth Cossey, Barbara Li Santi, Mathematics for Future Teachers and Parents at Mills College December 11,2008, 01:30 PM to 03:10 PM
  
• Ruth Cossey, Barbara Li Santi, Mathematics for Future Teachers and Parents at Mills College December 11,2008, 01:30 PM to 03:10 PM
  
• Deborah Ball, Jim Lewis, William McCallum, Forming Partnerships Across Institutional Boundaries (budgetary, departmental, college) December 12,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:05 AM
  
• Deborah Ball, Jim Lewis, William McCallum, Forming Partnerships Across Institutional Boundaries (budgetary, departmental, college) December 12,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:05 AM
  
• Deborah Ball, Jim Lewis, William McCallum, Forming Partnerships Across Institutional Boundaries (budgetary, departmental, college) December 12,2008, 09:00 AM to 10:05 AM
  
• Ben Ford, Brigitte Lahme, Rick Marks, Edith Mendez, Kathy Morris, Math Courses for Elementary Teachers at Sonoma State University December 12,2008, 10:40 AM to 12:20 PM
  
• Ben Ford, Brigitte Lahme, Rick Marks, Edith Mendez, Kathy Morris, Math Courses for Elementary Teachers at Sonoma State University December 12,2008, 10:40 AM to 12:20 PM
  
• Ben Ford, Brigitte Lahme, Rick Marks, Edith Mendez, Kathy Morris, Math Courses for Elementary Teachers at Sonoma State University December 12,2008, 10:40 AM to 12:20 PM
  
• Ben Ford, Brigitte Lahme, Rick Marks, Edith Mendez, Kathy Morris, Math Courses for Elementary Teachers at Sonoma State University December 12,2008, 10:40 AM to 12:20 PM
  
• Ben Ford, Brigitte Lahme, Rick Marks, Edith Mendez, Kathy Morris, Math Courses for Elementary Teachers at Sonoma State University December 12,2008, 10:40 AM to 12:20 PM
  
• Deborah Ball, Hyman Bass, Tim Boerst, Laurie Sleep, Learning Mathematics for Elementary Teaching at the University of Michigan December 12,2008, 01:30 PM to 03:10 PM
  
• Deborah Ball, Hyman Bass, Tim Boerst, Laurie Sleep, Learning Mathematics for Elementary Teaching at the University of Michigan December 12,2008, 01:30 PM to 03:10 PM
  
• Deborah Ball, Hyman Bass, Tim Boerst, Laurie Sleep, Learning Mathematics for Elementary Teaching at the University of Michigan December 12,2008, 01:30 PM to 03:10 PM
  
• Deborah Ball, Hyman Bass, Tim Boerst, Laurie Sleep, Learning Mathematics for Elementary Teaching at the University of Michigan December 12,2008, 01:30 PM to 03:10 PM
  
• Rebecca McGraw, Collaborative Instruction in Middle/High School Teacher Education December 12,2008, 03:35 PM to 04:30 PM
  
• Deborah Ball, Closing Session December 12,2008, 05:00 PM to 05:30 PM
  

Algebraic Statistics

• Milan Studeny, Conditional independence structures and polyhedra December 15,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Aleksandra Slavkovich, Algebraic Statistics and Disclosure Limitation Problems December 15,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Risi Kondor, Non-commutative harmonic analysis in machine learning December 15,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:10 PM
  
• Sonja Petrovic, Markov basis for p1 random graph models December 15,2008, 02:20 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Villo Csiszar, Hierarchical models for random permutations December 15,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:10 PM
  
• Lek-Heng Lim, Algebraic models for higher-order correlations December 15,2008, 04:20 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Akimichi takemura, Perturbation method for determining group of invariance of hierarchical models December 16,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Marta Casanellas, Phylogenetic invariants December 16,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Piotr Zwiernik, Semi-algebraic description of conditional independence tree models for binary data December 16,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:10 PM
  
• Luke Oeding, Towards the salmon conjecture December 16,2008, 02:20 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Serguei Norine, Markov bases of binary graph models December 16,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:10 PM
  
• Alexander Schoenhuth, "Equations for hidden Markov and related models" December 16,2008, 04:20 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Nihat Ay, On the natural geometry of exponential families December 17,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Sumio Watanabe, Algebraic Geometrical Method in Singular Statistical Estimation December 17,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Shaowei Lin, Asymptotic Approximation of Marginal Likelihood Integrals December 17,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:10 PM
  
• Han Xiao, Finiteness of small factor analysis models December 17,2008, 02:20 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Daniel Bates, Exactness in numerical algebraic computations December 17,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:10 PM
  
• Philipp Rostalski, Moment matrices and real root finding December 17,2008, 04:20 PM to 05:00 PM
  
• Ruriko Yoshida, First steps toward the geometry of cophylogeny December 18,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
  
• Giovanni Pistone, Algebraic statistics in non-parametric information geometry" December 18,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
• Ahmad Yasamin, Hypothesis Testing For The Wishart Distributions Over A Lorentz Cone December 18,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:10 PM
  
• Caroline Uhler, Commuting birth-and-death processes December 18,2008, 02:20 PM to 03:00 PM
  
• Seth Sullivant, Finiteness theorems in algebraic statistics December 18,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
  

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