CAM Colloquia - Fall 2004

All CAM Colloquia take place at 3:45 p.m. in 655 Rhodes Hall with refreshments following the colloquium at 4:45 p.m. in 657 Rhodes Hall.

The 2004-2005 Colloquium Committee is R. Connelly, P. Protter, D. Shmoys, M. Todd and S. Strogatz.. They may be contacted at collcomm@cam.cornell.edu.

• September 3 - Robert Adler, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, "The Brain, the Universe, and Random Processes on Manifolds" (Host: G. Samorodnitsky)
• September 17 - John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems Director, System Dynamics Group MIT Sloan School of Management jsterman@mit.edu "Why Can't Johnny Integrate? Filling Bathtubs, Controlling Climate Change, and other Experiments with Complex Dynamic Systems" (Joint with Nonlinear Systems Seminar) (Hosts: P. Newton and C. Nicholson)
• September 24 - Peter Sheridan Dodds, Columbia University "A Generalized Model of Social and Biological Contagion" (Joint with Nonlinear Systems Seminar) (Host: S. Strogatz)
• October 1 - Robert Vanderbei, Princeton University (Host: M. Todd) "Using Modern Optimization Tools to Solve Problems in Mechanics and Optics" (Host: M. Todd)
• October 8 - Michael Shub, University of Toronto, "Dynamical Systems, Linear Programming and Integral Geometry"(Host: J. Renegar)
• October 15 - Pierre L'Ecuyer, University of Montreal, "Uniform Random Number Generation: Overview and Recent Developments" (Host: S. Henderson)
• October 22 - Rudolf Riedi, Rice University, "Infinitely Divisible Cascades: Beyond Powerlaws" (Host: S. Resnick)
• October 29 - Takaki Hayashi, Columbia University, "On Covariance Estimation for High-Frequency Financial Data" (Host: P. Protter)
• November 5 - Stephen Pope, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell, " Algorithms for Turbulent Combustion"
• November 12 - Philip Holmes, Princeton University, "Optimal decisions: From neural spikes, through stochastic differential equations, to behavior" (Joint with Nonlinear Systems Seminar) (Host: J. Guckenheimer)
• November 19 - Christoph Hauert, Harvard, "Cooperation in Social Dilemmas: Effects of Spatial Structure and the Evolutionary Origin of Cooperators and Defectors " (Joint with Nonlinear Systems Seminar) (Host: S. Strogatz)
• November 26 - Thanksgiving
• December 3 - Helen Skaletski, MIT, "The Evolution of Sex Chromosomes: Do Human Males Have a Future?" (Host: Y. Ilyashenko)
• Tuesday, December 7- 4:15 p.m. (note not regular day or time) Denis Talay, Inria Centre de Sophia Antipolis, France, "From Biology to Finance: Analysis and Numerical Approximation of Stochastic Models with Singularities" (Joint with ORIE)(Host: P. Protter), 253 Rhodes, Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. in 258 Rhodes Hall.
  
  
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