SEPTEMBER 2007
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topic:TBA
Presenter:James McKernan,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date:Tuesday, September 18, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
Department Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:James McKernan,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date:Wednesday, September 19, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314
PACM Colloquium
Topic:My experiences with mathematics outside academia
Presenter:Janos Csirik, D E Shaw
Date:Monday, September 24, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
Abstract:The speaker attended the Berkeley Math PhD program from 1995 to 1999, completing his magnum opus "The kernel of the Eisenstein ideal" in algebraic number theory under the direction of Ken Ribet. He is currently a quantitative analyst at D. E. Shaw & Co, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. In this very informal seminar he will aim to provide some information that he would have found interesting and/or useful back when he was a graduate student. He will comment on his various experiences including an internship in cryptography with Arjen Lenstra at Citibank, being a researcher at two major industrial research labs (HP and AT&T), and being a quant at D. E. Shaw & Co. The speaker will be available for Q&A after the seminar. There will be a recruiting presentation by D. E. Shaw & Co. at 6:30pm on the same day at the Nassau Inn, which the speaker whole-heartedly recommends to all who are interested in finding out about a career in finance.
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Lawrence Ein,University of Illinois at Chicago
Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
Operations Research and Financial Engineering Seminar
Topic:Asymptotic Optimality in Sequential Quickest Change-Point Detection for General Stochastic Models
Presenter:Alexander Tartakovsky, University of Southern California
Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad
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OCTOBER 2007
PACM Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Panos Papadopoulos, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Date:Monday, October 1, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Bjorn Poonen,University of California at Berkeley
Date:Tuesday, October 2, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
Operations Research and Financial Engineering Seminar
Topic:Optimal Investment Strategies Under Partial Information and Bounded Shortfall Risk
Presenter:Ralf Wunderlich, ZwickauUniversity of Applied Sciences
Date:Tuesday, October 2, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad
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PACM Colloquium
Topic:Modeling complex brain dynamics
Presenter:Carlos Brody, Molecular Biology, PrincetonUniversity
Date:Monday, October 8, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
Abstract:It is thought that the neural activity in specific, specialized structures of the brain is responsible for what we experience as "cognition." I will describe recordings from the brains of awake primates, performing a cognitive task, that show that the relevant neural activity has a very complex and heterogeneous dynamical pattern. In these recordings, only a few neurons (less than 10) are recorded from at a time, and only a few hundreds of neurons are recorded from in the course of an entire experiment. Yet the number of neurons in the relevant brain areas is in the tens of millions. We aim to build dynamical systems models that describe the mechanisms responsible for the observed patterns in the data. How can we build models that are faithful to the complexity of the data, and faithful to the very large number of neurons involved, yet simple enough that we can understand their principles of operation?
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Jungkai Alfred Chen,NationalTaiwanUniversity
Date:Tuesday, October 16, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
Department Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Jean Bourgain,Institute for Advanced Study
Date:Wednesday, October 17, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314
PACM Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute, New YorkUniversity
Date:Monday, October 22, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topic:TBA
Presenter:David Eisenbud,University of California at Berkeley
Date:Tuesday, October 23, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
Department Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:David Eisenbud,University of California at Berkeley
Date:Wednesday, October 24, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314
NOVEMBER 2007
PACM Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:John Lafferty, Computer Science, CarnegieMellonUniversity
Date:Monday, November 5, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Rick Miranda,ColoradoStateUniversity
Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
Department Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Bálint Virág,University of Toronto
Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314
PACM Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Patrick Cheridito, Operations Res & Financial Eng, PrincetonUniversity
Date:Monday, November 12, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Sai-Kee Yeung,PurdueUniversity
Date:Tuesday, November 13, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
Department Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Isaac Held,NOAA and Princeton
Date:Wednesday, November 14, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314
PACM Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Dargan Frierson, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Date:Monday, November 19, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
Algebraic Geometry Seminar *** Please note special date
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Christopher Hacon,University of Utah
Date:Friday, November 30, 2007, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322
DECEMBER 2007
PACM Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Marsha Berger, Courant Institute, New YorkUniversity
Date:Monday, December 3, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
PACM Colloquium
Topic:TBA
Presenter:Iain Couzin, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, PrincetonUniversity
Date:Monday, December 10, 2007, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214
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