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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