Statistics

What is the chance that the match is coincidence?

Richard Gill, Leiden University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Sets of integers with no large sum-free subset

Sean Eberhard (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

The International Year of Statistics 2013 - Series of Public Lectures

Numbers are weapons: a self-defence guide

Tim Harford, of More or Less.

Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:30-18:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Unlinking and unknottedness of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds

Jonny Evans, UCL.

MR13.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On a problem of Erdős on similar copies of sequences in measurable sets

András Máthé, University of Warwick.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Nodal length fluctuations for arithmetic random waves.

Igor Wigman, (King's College London).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Visibility of Tate-Shafarevich groups in abelian surfaces and abelian threefolds

Tom Fisher (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

A constructive approach to geometric algebra

Achilleas Kryftis, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Breakdown of smoothness for the Muskat problem

Angel Castro, ICMAT(Madrid).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 20 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (LG, Central building).

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

The geometries of the Freudenthal-Tits magic square

Jeroen Schillewaert (Imperial).

MR12.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Defining a 'Fukaya category' of (derived) Lagrangians in a complex symplectic manifold using perverse sheaves

Dominic Joyce, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title: Volume minimizers and (pseudo-)holomorphic cycles

Claudio Arezzo (ICTP).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Local-global compatibility in the p-adic Langlands program for unitary groups

Przemyslaw Chojecki (Jussieu).

MR13.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Number Theory Seminar

Congruences in noncommutative Iwasawa theory and applications

Mahesh Kakde (King's College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Adjunctions between fibrations

Christina Vasilakopoulou, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Nucleation and growth in the Ising model at very low temperatures (joint work with Francesco Manzo, Roma)

Raphael Cerf (Université Paris-Sud).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Uniformizing surfaces with conical singularities

Andrea Malchiodi (University of Warwick).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 13 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.

Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 10 May 2013, 15:45-16:45

Combinatorics Seminar

Tilted Sperner Families

Eoin Long (Queen Mary, London).

MR12.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Spin(7)-instantons, the Bogomolov inequality and stable bundles on abelian 4-folds.

Vicente Munoz, Madrid.

MR13.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On a conjecture of Serre

Lillian Pierce (Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Characterization of theta divisors

Zhi Jiang (Paris Sud).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Convergence to equilibrium for degenerate kinetic equations

Francesco Salvarani (University of Pavia).

CMS, MR4.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Analytic continuation of Hilbert modular forms and applications to modularity

Payman Kassaei (King's College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

Universes for category theory

Zhen Lin Low, DPMMS.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Hitting Times for Maker-Breaker Games

Dan Hefetz (University of Birmingham).

MR12.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (LG, Central building).

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Bounding cohomology

David Stewart.

MR12.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Control of oscillatory integrals by maximal operators

Jon Bennet (Birmingham).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Structure of the colored HOMFLY knot homology

Marko Stosic, Lisbon.

MR13.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

k-gonal loci in Severi varieties of curves on K3 surfaces and rational curves on hyperkahler manifolds

Andreas Knutsen (Bergen).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Category Theory Seminar

Well adapted models in Synthetic Differential Geometry

Filip Bár, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:15-15:15

The International Year of Statistics 2013 - Series of Public Lectures

Failings in hierarchies of evidence for controversial health-policy decisions

Professor Sir Michael Rawlins (NICE).

Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

Monday 29 April 2013, 17:30-18:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Boundary layers and free surfaces in fluid mechanics

Frédéric Rousset, Université Rennes 1.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 29 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Approximating Data

Laurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

WHAT GALOIS THEORY CAN TEACH US ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: A COSMIC GALOIS GROUP?

Pierre Cartier (Institut Des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 14:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Restriction theory related to Waring's problem

Kevin Hughes (Edinburgh).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Birational geometry of moduli of sheaves on K3s via wall-crossing

Arend Bayer (Edinburgh).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 14:15-15:15

Category Theory Seminar

Internal algebra classifiers and their applications

Michael Batanin, Macquarie University, Australia.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

On the inviscid limit for the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations

Vlad Vicol, Princeton University.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 22 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

Cambridge Statistics Initiative One-Day Meeting 2013

Various speakers.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 22 April 2013, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter Break

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 03 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Open problems

Part of a South England profinite groups meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Friday 22 March 2013, 16:30-16:45

Algebra Seminar

Applications of Pink's theorem to the study of linear pro-p groups over local fields of positive characteristic

Third talk of a South England profinite groups meeting

Yiftach Barnea (Royal Holloway).

MR12.

Friday 22 March 2013, 15:30-16:30

Algebra Seminar

On the representation and subgroup growth of F_p[[t]]-analytic profinite groups

Second talk of a South England profinite groups meeting

Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain (Madrid).

MR12.

Friday 22 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Algebra Seminar

Analytic pro-p groups over pro-p domains - an introduction

First talk of a South England profinite groups meeting

Ben Klopsch (Magdeburg and Royal Holloway).

MR12.

Friday 22 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Enrichment of categories of algebras and coalgebras

Christina Vasilakopoulou.

CMS, MR4.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Algebra Seminar

Permutations and polynomial factorisation

Cheryl Praeger (U of Western Australia).

MR12.

Wednesday 20 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Brody curves and mean dimension

Masaki Tsukamoto (Kyoto).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 20 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Optimal Resistor Networks

Mark Walters (Queen Mary, UL).

MR12.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

Algebra Seminar

Euler characteristics of soluble Iwasawa algebras

Jon Nelson.

MR12.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Billiard on nilmanifolds and other stories

Eugene Gutkin, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Spectral rigidity and invariant distributions on Anosov surfaces

Gabriel Paternain, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Landau-Ginzburg models for Lagrangian Grassmannians

Clelia Pech.

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Statistics Reading Group

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics

Note the unusual time and location to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary meeting

Bharath Sriperumbudur, Statistical Laboratory.

MR-12.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 13:15-14:30

Probability

Connectivity patterns in loop percolation and constant term identities

Dan Romik (UC Davis).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Equivariant D-modules on rigid analytic spaces

Konstantin Ardakov (Queen Mary).

MR14.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

A categorical approach to loops, neardomains and nearfields

Rudger Kieboom, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

The Trireme (and Salamis): oh, and the Greeks were just a _philosophical_ people (not)

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 11 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Propagation of monokinetic measures with rough momentum profiles

François Golse (École Polytechnique, France).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 11 March 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Nilpotent approximate groups

Matthew Tointon, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 08 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Juntas, stability and isoperimetric inequalities in the symmetric group

David Ellis (Queen Mary, UL).

MR12.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Approximation in Domain Theory and some related Category Theory

Steffen Loesch - Computer Lab.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent IV

Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Small cancellation

Richard Parker.

MR12.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

TBA

Neal Bez (Birmingham).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Complex line arrangements and polyhedral metrics

Dima Panov, KCL.

MR13.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Kähler-Einstein potential on simple polytope

Éveline Legendre (Toulouse).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Robust calibration of models in finance

Professor Josef Teichmann (ETH University of Zurich).

CMS, MR4.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Number Theory Seminar

How frequently does the Hasse principle fail?

Tim Browning (Bristol).

MR14.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

Abstract versions of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz, and dualities for algebraic categories

Vincenzo Marra, Milan.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

Today's lecture (Salamis and the Trireme) cancelled due to 21st century mechanical problems.

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Thermodynamics, energetics and regularity for a De Gennes liquid crystal system

Arghir Zarnescu (Sussex).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 04 March 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Frequentist coverage and adaptation of nonparametric Bayesian credible sets

Harry van Zanten, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Spectral sequences

John Rizkallah, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 01 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Partition Regularity in the Rationals

Ben Barber (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

A Monadgerie

Ben Millwood.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics Reading Group

Minimax lower bound using Assouad's method

Arlene Kim (Statistical Laboratory).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Synchronization and graph endomorphisms

Peter Cameron (Queen Mary).

MR12.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

A new invariant of G2 structures

Diarmuid Crowley, Max Planck Bonn.

MR13.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Local dimensions, Bernoulli convolutions and self-affine measures

Thomas Jordan, University of Bristol.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Spherical DG-functors

Timothy Logvinenko (Warwick).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Discrete holomorphicity and Ising model transfer matrix formalism

Kalle Kytölä (Helsinki).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

On some local-to-global phenomena for abelian varieties

Barinder Banwait (Warwick).

MR14.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

The fundamental group as a Kan extension

Julia Goedecke, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

The Trireme (and Salamis): oh, and the Greeks were just a philosophical people (not)

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Geometric compatibility, quasiconvexity and phase transitions

Konstantinos Koumatos (Oxford).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 25 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Optimization meets Statistics: Fast global convergence for high-dimensional statistical recovery

Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Polynomial-time perfect matchings in dense hypergraphs

Fiachra Knox (Queen Mary UL).

MR12.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent III

Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Chevalley restriction theorem for vector-valued functions on quantum groups

Martina Balagovic (York).

MR12.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Towards a vanishing theorem in bounded cohomology of Lie groups

Andreas Ott, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

The inverse sieve problem

Miguel Walsh (Buenos Aires).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Modular Forms for Genus Three

Gerard van der Geer (Amsterdam).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Probability

A consistency estimate for Kac's model of elastic collisions in a dilute gas

James Norris (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Congruent numbers

John Coates (Cambridge).

MR14.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

Entropy is inevitable

Tom Leinster, Edinburgh.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

Gelen, and then rationalist medicine and Christian healers. Oops.

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pareto Optimality in Coalition Formation

Paul Harrenstein (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Non-Uniqueness Phenomena for the Incompressible Euler Equations

Emil Wiedemann (PIMS, UBC) .

CMS, MR13.

Monday 18 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

DPMMS Presentations

Semiregularity as a consequence of Goodwillie's theorem

Jon Pridham (Cambridge).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 18 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Strong Oracle Optimality of Folded Concave Penalized Estimation

Jianqing Fan, Princeton University.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Efficient implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo when using an unbiased likelihood estimator

Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Coset diagrams and their application to finitely presented groups

Julian Brough, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Limits of Permutations: Forcing and Testing

Dan Král' (University of Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

DPMMS Presentations

Cohomology of diffeomorphism groups

Oscar Randal-Williams (Cambridge) .

CMS, MR11.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Algebra Seminar

Deflating characters of symmetric groups and Foulkes' Conjecture

Rowena Paget (Kent).

MR12.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

A flexibility result in high-dimensional contact topology

Klaus Niederkruger, Toulouse.

MR13.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Norm convergence of nonconventional ergodic averages

Miguel Walsh (Buenos Aires).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Quantitative estimates in stochastic homogenization

Daniel Marahrens (Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig).

CMS, MR11.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Density of rational points on Del Pezzo surfaces of degree one

Ronald van Luijk (Leiden).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Statistics Reading Group

Adaptive algorithms for Stratified Sampling Monte Carlo

Note the earlier time and different room to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary Meeting

Alexandra Carpentier (Statistical Laboratory).

MR9, CMS.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:30

Probability

Flows driven by rough paths

Ismael Bailleul (IRMAR).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

On arithmetically defined hyperbolic manifolds and their Betti numbers

Joachim Schwermer (Wien).

MR14.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

Generalised Polynomial Functors: Theory and Applications

Marcelo Fiore, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

more medicine: hellenistic medics and Greeks and Romans, and Galen.

piers bursill-hall (dpmms).

MR3.

Monday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Strongly polynomial algorithm for a class of nonlinear minimum-cost flow problems

László Végh (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

The Yang-Mills Lagrangian in supercritical dimensions

Mircea Petrache (ETH).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 11 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

DPMMS Presentations

Cobordisms of sutured manifolds

Andras Juhasz (Imperial).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 11 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth

Marc Hallin, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Sinnott's proof of Washington's theorem, and generalisations

Jack Lamplugh, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 08 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Proof of the 1-factorization and Hamilton decomposition conjectures

Allan Lo (University of Birmingham).

MR12.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

DPMMS Presentations

An arithmetic refinement of homological mirror symmetry for the 2-torus

Yanki Lekili (Cambridge) .

CMS, MR4.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent II

Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Association schemes, permutation groups and their products

Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary).

MR12.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Normal numbers and fractal measures

Pablo Shmerkin (Surrey).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Contact manifolds with symplectomorphic symplectizations

Sylvain Courte, ENS Lyon.

MR13.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Index of varieties over Henselian fields

Hélène Esnault (Berlin).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Self-avoiding walks, one-third and two-thirds, and KPZ universality

Alan Hammond (Oxford).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

p-adic group rings and the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture

Henri Johnston (Cambridge).

MR14.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:15-17:15

Category Theory Seminar

Monotone-light factorisation systems

Tomas Everaert, Belgium.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 15:00-15:45

Category Theory Seminar

Universal central extensions in peri-abelian categories

Tim Van der Linden, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 14:15-15:00

DPMMS Presentations

The structure of approximate Abelian groups

Tom Sanders (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

History of science for mathmos

Alexandrine Medicine - dead bodies!

piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge).

MR3.

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Local Optimality in Algebraic Path Problems

Timothy Griffin (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Dynamical stability and instability of Ricci-flat metrics

Reto Mueller (Imperial College).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 04 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

DPMMS Presentations

Automorphic forms and the p-adic Langlands correspondence

Toby Gee (Imperial).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 04 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth

Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Generating Sequences of Finite Groups

Benjamin Nachman, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

2D Coulomb gases, Abrikosov lattices and the Renormalized energy

Sylvia Serfaty (Université Paris 6).

CMS, MR13.

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The Size of Capsets

Michael Bateman (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Model Categories

Paige North - DPMMS.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics Reading Group

Theory and applications of proper scoring rules

Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

HNN extensions and linear groups

Jack Button.

MR12.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Polynomial configurations in the primes

Julia Wolf (Paris).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

The Hele-Shaw flow and the moduli of holomorphic discs

Julius Ross, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Satake compactifications and the Schottky problem

Giulio Codogni (Cambridge).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

A non-abelian conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer type

Minhyong Kim (Oxford).

MR14.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 16:15-17:15

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Intermediated Exchange: Theory and Experiments

Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Category Theory Seminar

Some remarks on 2-star-permutability and descent in regular categories.

Marino Gran, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Finite range decomposition of free fields

Roland Bauerschmidt (UBC).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

History of science for mathmos

Hellenistic mathematical astronomy, stoics physics, and Ptolemy. awesomeness^2

piers bursill-hall (dpmms).

MR3.

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Stefan problem: well-posedness and stability theories in presence and absence of surface tension

Mahir Hadžić (MIT).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 28 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication

Rosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

A measurable version of the Lovász Local Lemma

Gábor Kun (ELTE, Budapest).

MR12.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent I

Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Trace functions over finite fields

Emmanuel Kowalski, ETH.

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Group actions on schemes and homotopy types

Ambrus Pál (Imperial College).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Diffusivity of random walk in divergence free random drift field in 2d

Balint Toth (TU Budapest ).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

On the local mod p representation attached to a modular form

Kevin Buzzard (Imperial).

MR14.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:15-17:15

History of science for mathmos

Science in late antiquity: rationality and a new religion

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Relative entropy method and lattice continuum limit in elasticity

David Stuart (Cambridge).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 21 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Local algorithms on bounded degree graphs

Endre Csóka (Rényi Institute and University of Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

What is ... a topos?

Zhen Lin Low.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Primes, Polynomials and Random Matrices

Jon Keating, Bristol.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group

Ailsa Keating, MIT.

MR13.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On Siu's Approach to Abundance Conjecture

Thomas Eckl (Liverpool).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Probability

The free Bose gas and permutations of integers

Thomas Richthammer (Munich).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Well-posedness issues for the boundary layer equations

David Gerard-Varet (Université Paris 7).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 14 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Beyond i.i.d. in Information Theory Work Shop

Beyond i.i.d. in Information Theory Workshop - 8th January - 11th January

Various speakers.

CMS.

Friday 11 January 2013, 09:30-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Winter 2012

Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 16:30-18:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

From Ornstein's non-inequalities to rank-one convexity

Jan Kristensen (University of Oxford, OxPDE).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 03 December 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Minimax Lower Bounds

Adityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Growth of p-Selmer groups of elliptic curves in cyclic extensions

Julio Brau, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Partition Regularity in the Rationals (POSTPONED)

Ben Barber (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Polynomial Functors

Tamara von Glehn.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

From total positivity to quantum algebras

Stephane Launois (Kent).

MR12.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Computing Dirichlet L-functions

Ghaith Hiary, Bristol.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Naturality of Heegaard Floer homology

Andras Juhasz, Imperial College.

MR13.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

The width of a group

Nick Gill (Open University).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:30-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On varieties of globally F-regular type

Yoshinori Gongyo (Imperial college and Tokyo).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Hunting down the Black Swan: Correlation, Contagion & Endogenous Risk in Financial Markets

Professor Rama Cont (Imperial College London).

CMS, MR2.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Probability

A new approach to the Brownian web

Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

p-adic Geometric Langlands

Alexander Paulin (King's College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Topological Galois Theory

Olivia Caramello, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

Stability

Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

History of science for mathmos

Aristotle on physics, mathematics, astronomy

piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge).

MR3.

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Hadamard instability and the emergence of localized states in dynamic plasticity

Athanasios E. Tzavaras (University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 26 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

General Truthfulness Characterizations Via Convex Analysis

Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 26 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Random Fraction of a Biased Sample: old models and a new one

Geurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Quotients of groups by torsion elements

Dr. Maurice Chiodo, The University of Milan.

MR4.

Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Energy driven pattern formation in a non-local Ginzburg-Landau/Cahn-Hilliard energy

Dorian Goldman (NYU).

CMS, MR3.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Expansion in the group of affine transformations

Peter Varju (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Fibrations and Adjointness

Anders Kock (University of Aarhus).

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Almost-prime k-tuples

James Maynard (Oxford).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Collapsing Riemannian manifolds and stability of inverse problems

Yaroslav Kurylev, UCL.

MR13.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Asymptotics of radiation fields in asymptotically Minkowski spaces

Dean Baskin (Northwestern).

CMS, MR3.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Curve counting on surfaces

Martijn Kool (Imperial College).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Invariant and unimodular measures in the theory of random graphs

Vadim Kaimanovich (University of Ottawa).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

What is a mod l Langlands correspondence for GL_n(Q_p) ?

Jean-Francois Dat (Jussieu).

MR13.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Commutative monads, distributions, and differential categories

Anders Kock, Aarhus, Denmark.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

CMS Colloquia

Curvature, Sphere Theorems, and the Ricci Flow

To be followed by a reception in the central core

Prof. Simon Brendle (Stanford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

History of science for mathmos

Answers to Parmenides IV: Aristotle

piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge).

MR3.

Monday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pathways to Equilibria, Pretty Pictures and Diagrams (PPAD)

Bernhard von Stengel (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Rough solutions of Einstein vacuum equations in CMCSH gauge

Qian Wang (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 19 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Decision Theory, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Stopping

Chris Jennison, University of Bath.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Cyclically presented groups and one relator quotients of triangle groups

Mariano Zeron-Medina, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Random graphs from a minor-closed class

Colin McDiarmid (University of Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Tilings for symmetric groups

Joe Chuang (City).

MR12.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On the dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture

Par Kurlberg.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

The "Mumford conjecture" package, and applications

Oscar Randal-Williams, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On the Chow group of zero-cycles on K3 surfaces

Claire Voisin (Ecole polytechnique).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Central values of modular form L-functions

Bob Hough (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Coherence for symmetric monoidal bicategories

Nick Gurski, Sheffield.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

Answers to Parmenidies III: Plato

piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge).

MR3.

Monday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

On the Tradeoff between Economic Efficiency and Strategyproofness in Randomized Social Choice

Markus Brill (TU Munich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 12 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Minimal tori in S^{3} and the Lawson conjecture

Simon Brendle (Stanford University).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 12 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Quantum symmetric algebras

Alex Shannon, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 09 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Algebra Seminar

Regularisation, homomorphisms and irreducible Specht modules

Matthew Fayers (Queen Mary).

MR12.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

To be confirmed

Roger Heath-Brown, Oxford.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Values taken by pairs of quadratc forms

Roger Heath-Brown, Oxford.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Min-max theory and the energy of links

Andre Neves, Imperial College.

MR13.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On the moduli part in the canonical bundle formula

Enrica Floris (Strasbourg).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Representation zeta functions

Alexander Stasinski (Durham).

MR13.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

On constructing free algebras and properties of free Heyting algebras

Dion Coumans, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

answers to parmenides: rationalism in the later 5th century BC

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 05 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Theoretical Analysis of Crowdsourced Content Curation

Greg Stoddard (Northwestern).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 05 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Uniqueness of Lagrangian self-expanders

Jason Lotay.

CMS, MR11.

Monday 05 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects

Oliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Regular orbits of symmetric groups

Joanna Fawcett, University of Cambridge.

MR4.

Friday 02 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Point-Line Problems

Ben Green (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Embedding symplectic balls into four-dimensional tori - Cancelled

CANCELLED (due to NY weather)

Dusa McDuff, Columbia.

MR15.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Residual deficiency and one relator quotients of triangle groups

Mariano Zeron-Medina.

MR12.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Morse 2-functions and trisections of 4-manifolds

Rob Kirby, Berkeley.

MR13.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Nilpotent approximate groups

Matthew Tointon (Cambridge).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Valuation Theory and Extensions of Pluri-canonical Sections

Zhengyu Hu (Cambridge).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

On the monotonicity of the speed of biased random walk on a Galton-Watson tree without leaves

Alexander Fribergh (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Studying L-functions via the trace formula

Paul-James White (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Grothendieck topologies and Grothendieck quantales

Isar Stubbe, Calais, France.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

the beginnings of natural philosophy ca 500 BC

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 29 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Adversarial Option Pricing: How Robust is Black-Scholes?

Rafael M. Frongillo (Berkeley).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property

Felix Krahmer (Goettingen).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Open Afternoon

Statistical Laboratory Open Afternoon

James Norris.

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Combinatorics Seminar

How many real roots does a random matrix have?

Van Vu (Yale University).

MR12.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Nivat's Conjecture and expansive dynamics

Bryna Kra, Northwestern University, Chicago.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Fibrant symplectic homology and the nearby Lagrangian conjecture

Thomas Kragh, Uppsala.

MR13.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Mean Dimension & Jaworski-type Theorems

Yonatan Gutman (Cambridge).

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Algebraic cycles and fibrations

Charles Vial (Cambridge).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

SLE(8/3)-bubbles

Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Towards the cohomogical construction of Breuil-Kisin modules

Nicolas Ojeda Bar (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Geometric morphisms between relizability toposes

Peter Johnstone, DPMMS, Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

3rd meeting: Mesopotamian 'sciences' and 'science' in Homeric Greece

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 22 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Robust and Frugal Mechanisms for Hiring a Team

Mahyar Salek (MSR Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 22 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Construction of infinite-bump solutions for non-linear-Schrödinger-like equations

Prof. Robert Magnus (Reykjavik/DPMMS).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 22 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Wavelet-based estimation of the long memory parameter in Gaussian non-gappy and gappy time series

Peter Craigmile, University of Glasgow.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Thar she blows - in pursuit of a classification of finite index subgroups of SL_2(Z) in terms of wallpaper groups

Marj Batchelor.

MR4.

Friday 19 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Partitioning coloured graphs into monochromatic cycles

Alexey Pokrovskiy (LSE).

MR12.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Endomorphisms of generic models of classifying toposes

Achilleas Kryftis - DPMMS.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

A closed formula for the Kronecker coefficients

Maud De Visscher (City).

MR12.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Effective bisector estimate for PSL(2,C) with applications to circle packings

Ilya Vinogradov, Bristol.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Cohomological dimension and engulfing

Will Cavendish, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Anticanonical divisors and curve classes on Fano manifolds

Andreas Hoering (Jussieu).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Zero-temperature Stochastic 2D Ising model and anisotropic curve-shortening flow

Hubert Lacoin (Université Paris Dauphine ).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Classicality for overconvergent eigenforms on some Shimura varieties

Christian Johansson (Imperial).

MR13.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Lie structure in Logic wiring

Marcelo Fiore, Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

History of science for mathmos

2nd meeting: before natural philosophy: Egypt and Mesopotamia

Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS.

MR3.

Monday 15 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Prioritising Diversity in School Choice

Aytek Erdil (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 15 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Tiling Euclidean Space with Multiplicity by a Polytope

Sinai Robins (Nanyang University, Singapore).

MR12.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Weighted Limits

Guilherme Frederico Lima - DPMMS.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Algebra Seminar

Cohomological finiteness conditions for generalised Thompson groups

Brita Nucinkis (Southampton and Royal Holloway) .

MR12.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Ample subschemes

John Christian Ottem (Cambridge).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Space-time percolation and detection by mobile nodes

Alexandre Stauffer (Microsoft Research).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Generalised Eichler-Shimura relations and cohomology of (some) Shimura varieties

Jan Nekovar (Jussieu).

MR13.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

A categorical view of classical lambda calculus

Martin Hyland, DPMMS, Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

A curious variational property of classical minimal surfaces

Jacob Bernstein (University of Cambridge, DPMMS).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 08 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series

Michael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Kahlerian K3 surfaces and Niemeier lattices

Viacheslav Nikulin (Liverpool).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 03 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 16:30-18:00

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Colimits in Toposes

Richard Garner.

CMS, MR15.

Tuesday 18 September 2012, 14:00-15:00

Category Theory Seminar

Categories and profunctors via free cocompletions

Richard Garner, Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 17 September 2012, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 22 August 2012, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Local audibility of a hyperbolic metric

Vladimir Sharafutdinov, Novosibirsk.

MR13.

Friday 17 August 2012, 14:30-15:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Long-time behaviour of nonlinear growth-fragmentation equations

Pierre Gabriel (Inria Lyon).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 06 August 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 18 July 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Recurrence of planar graph limits

Ori Gurel-Gurevich (University of British Columbia).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 July 2012, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Variations of the Mermin--Wagner theorem

Yuri Suhov (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Valuation Compressions in Combinatorial Auctions

Paul Dütting (EPFL).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Disjoint Lagrangian spheres

Note exceptional day and time!

Paul Seidel, MIT.

MR13.

Friday 15 June 2012, 10:30-11:30

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

Paul Seidel (MIT).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Statistics Reading Group

Graphical communication of variability, risk and uncertainty

David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge).

MR2, CMS.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Model and estimator selection for density estimation with L2-loss

Lucien Birgé, Paris VI.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Orthogonality of the Mobius function to zero-entropy flows

Jianya Liu (Shandong).

MR13.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Simple Dynamics in Large Games

R. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Weakly regular spacetimes with symmetry

Philippe LeFloch (Paris 6 and CNRS).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 11 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Searching for Multiple Hidden Objects

Thomas Lidbetter (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Continuous-time Importance Sampling for Multivariate Diffusions

Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Discriminants of wild extensions

Hendrik Lenstra (Leiden).

MR13.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

The phase transition in random graphs -- a simple proof

Benny Sudakov (UCLA).

MR12.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Investing and Stopping, and Firms, Banks and Households

Moritz Duembgen and Pawel Zaczkowski (U. of Cambridge).

CMS, MR14.

Monday 04 June 2012, 13:30-14:30

Statistics

Likelihood based inference for current status data on a grid: a boundary phenomenon and an adaptive inference procedure

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The Speed of Bootstrap Percolation

Paul Smith (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Algebra Seminar

Permutation groups and regular semigroups

Peter Cameron (QMUL).

MR12.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Statistics Reading Group

Modern advances in likelihood ratio inference

Moulinath Banerjee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA).

MR2, CMS.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

On the rigidity of convex billiards

Alfonso Sorrentino, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A conjecture of Colliot-Thelene in the case of the exceptional groups

Ivan Panin (St Petersburg).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

On the continuity of SLE(k) curves in k and their behavior at the tip

Fredrik Johansson Viklund (Columbia).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Reductions of local Galois representations arising from Hilbert modular forms

Fred Diamond (Kings College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

DPMMS Seminar

The Topological Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality

Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Pure Mathematics

Danny Calegari (Cambridge).

CMS, MR2.

Monday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

CMS Colloquia

The Topological Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality

Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Pure Mathematics

Danny Calegari (Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Convergence to equilibrium for subcritical solutions of the Becker-Döring equations

José Alfredo Cañizo (DPMMS).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 28 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Branching particle systems with selection

Lee Zhuo Zhao (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR14.

Monday 28 May 2012, 13:30-14:30

Statistics

Modelling Network Data

Patrick Wolfe, University College London.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Extremal graphs and graph limits

László Lóvász (Eötvös Loránd University).

MR4.

Friday 25 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Injective Resolutions and Noetherian Rings

Rishi Vyas.

MR12.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Homotopy of codimension one foliations on 3-manifolds

Helene Eynard, Jussieu.

MR13.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Tropical scheme theory

Jeffrey H. Giansiracusa (Swansea).

MR13, CMS.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Geometric approach to the local Jacquet-Langlands correspondence

Yoichi Mieda (Kyoto).

MR4.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 16:15-17:15

Number Theory Seminar

The class group pairing on elliptic curves

Chris Wuthrich (Nottingham).

MR4.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

The Algebra of Directed Acyclic Graphs

Marco Devesas Campos, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Managing Air Traffic Disruptions Through Strategic Prioritization

Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

The Merton Problem with a drawdown constraint on consumption

Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR14.

Monday 21 May 2012, 13:30-14:30

Statistics

Statistical inference for compound regression

Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI.

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Decidability aspects of computing spectral measures

CANCELLED

Lukasz Grabowski (Imperial).

MR13.

Friday 18 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Algebra Seminar

Platonic polygonal complexes

Ian Leary (Southampton).

MR12.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Twistor surfaces

Simon Salamon, King's College London.

MR13.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Filtrations and test-configurations

Gabor Szekelyhidi (Notre Dame).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Edge reinforced random walks, Vertex reinforced jump process, and the SuSy hyperbolic sigma model.

Pierre Tarres (Oxford).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Topology Seminar

Solving tangle equations and the tangle model for DNA recombination

Mauro Mauricio (Imperial).

MR9.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

The Buzzard-Diamond-Jarvis conjecture for unitary groups

David Savitt (Arizona).

MR13.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Polynomial Functors and the Dialectics interpretation

Martin Hyland, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Rapid convergence to quasi-stationary states for the 2D Navier-Stokes equation

Margaret Beck (Heriot-Watt).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 14 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Analytic Results on a Decentralized Combinatorial Auction

Richard Steinberg (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

From statistical estimation to well localized frames, via heat kernel

Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VI.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 11 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Matching Numbers of Hypergraphs

Hao Huang (UCLA).

MR5.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Large and Judicious Bisections of Graphs

Choongbum Lee (UCLA).

MR12.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Fukaya categories of Stein manifolds

Mohammed Abouzaid, Clay.

MR13.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On the generic vanishing theorem

Giuseppe Pareschi (Rome II).

MR13, CMS.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Topology Seminar

Links with splitting number one

Marc Lackenby (Oxford).

MR9.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Grouping strategies for denoising

Dominique Picard.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Special values of L-functions

Tony Scholl (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Characterising realisability toposes

Jonas Frey, Paris.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Area minimizing surfaces in mean convex 3-manifolds

Baris Coskunuzer (Koc University).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 07 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

The interacting Bose gas: A challenge for analysts

Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 07 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Exponential Lower Bounds for Solving Infinitary Payoff Games and Linear Programs

Oliver Friedmann (LMU Munich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 07 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning

Francis Bach, INRIA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Hamilton Cycles in Random Cayley Graphs

Demetres Christofides (QMUL).

MR12.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Algebra Seminar

Beauville surfaces and groups

Gareth Jones (Southampton).

MR12.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Betti numbers of random real hypersurfaces

Jean-Yves Welschinger, Lyon.

MR13.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences

Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington.

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Two Extensions of Ramsey's Theorem

Jacob Fox (MIT).

MR12.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Arithmetic moduli of Enriques Surfaces

Christian Liedtke (Bonn).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Magnetization field at criticality in the Ising model

Christophe Garban.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Topology Seminar

On realizing homology classes by maps of restricted complexity

András Szűcs (Budapest).

MR9.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Category Theory Seminar

Viewpoints on Homology

Julia Goedecke, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

On L-packets for classical groups

Shaun Stevens (UEA).

MR13.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

The h-principle for the Euler equations

Camillo De Lellis (Zurich).

CMS, MR11.

Monday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

History of Statistics (up to ~1900)

Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR14.

Monday 30 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant

Fadoua Balabdaoui, Université Paris Dauphine.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Some geometry of cubic hypersurfaces

Mingmin Shen (Cambridge).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Generalized sub-Riemannian cut loci and implied/local volatility smiles

Peter Friz (TU Berlin).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Dirac cohomology and a formula for dimension of automorphic forms

Jing-Song Huang (Shandong).

MR13.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Boundary kernels for dissipative systems

Shih-Hsien Yu (Singapore).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 23 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Category Theory Seminar

The Herbrand topos

Benno van den Berg, University of Utrecht.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

K(pi,1)-property of complements to curve arrangements on surfaces

Dmitri Panov (Kings College).

MR2.

Friday 13 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Sasaki geometry and positive curvature

Song Sun (Imperial College).

MR2.

Friday 13 April 2012, 10:30-11:30

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Bounding singularities on minimal models

Paolo Cascini (Imperial College).

MR2.

Friday 13 April 2012, 09:00-10:00

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Convergence of the normalized Kaehler-Ricci flow on Fano varieties

Vincent Guedj (Toulouse).

MR2.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Quantisation and the Hessian of Mabuchi energy

Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

MR2.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Gluing theorems and power series

Michael Singer (University of Edinburgh).

MR2.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 11:30-12:30

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

A probabilistic approach to Kahler-Einstein metrics

Robert Berman (University of Chalmers).

MR2.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 10:00-11:00

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Symmetries related to Okounkov bodies

David Witt-Nystrom (Chalmers University).

MR2.

Wednesday 11 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Applications of the Hormander technique in Kahler-Einstein geometry

Simon Donaldson (Imperial College).

MR2.

Wednesday 11 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Toric Slope Stability and Partial Bergman Kernels

Florian Pokorny (KTH).

MR2.

Wednesday 11 April 2012, 11:30-12:30

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Special Test Configurations

Chenyang Xu (MIT).

MR2.

Wednesday 11 April 2012, 10:00-11:00

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Lagrangian fibrations on hyperkahler manifolds

Daniel Greb (University of Freiburg).

MR2.

Tuesday 10 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

A Brunn-Minkowski theorem for Fano manifolds and some uniqueness theorems in Kahler geometry

Bo Berndtsson (Chalmers University).

MR2.

Tuesday 10 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

Ambitoric structures and extremal Kahler orbi-surfaces with b_2(M)=2.

Vestislav Apostolov (Université du Québec à Montréal).

MR2.

Tuesday 10 April 2012, 11:30-12:30

Workshop on Kahler Geometry

H-projective geometry: an overview

David Calderbank (University of Bath).

MR2.

Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00-11:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Resonance free strips for normally hyperbolic trapped sets

Maciej Zworski (Berkeley).

CMS, MR12.

Monday 26 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Kac’s Model and Villani’s Conjecture

Amit Einav (DPMMS).

CMS, MR12.

Monday 19 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Hopf algebras and duality

Astrid Jahn (University of Glasgow).

MR13.

Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The chromatic thresholds of graphs

Peter Allen (LSE).

MR12.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Floer theoretically essential tori in rational blowdowns

Yankl Lekili, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

F-singularities and alterations

Manuel Blickle (Mainz).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Topology Seminar

Khovanov homotopy types

Paul Turner (Geneva and Freiburg).

MR15.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Divisibility of Chow groups of 0-cycles of varieties over local fields with algebraically closed residue fields

Olivier Wittenberg (ENS, Paris).

MR13.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Barren structures and badly behaved monads on the category of sets.

Nathan Bowler, Hamburg.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Faber-Krahn inequalities for the principal eigenvalue of second order elliptic operators

Emmanuel Russ (Grenoble).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 12 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An overview of shape-constrained estimation problems

Yining Chen (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR12.

Monday 12 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Hilbert Space Embedding of Probability Measures: Theory and Applications

Bharath Sriperumbudur.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Arithmetic of CM curves over abelian extensions

Note unusual time

Jack Lamplugh (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Possible Turán Densities

Oleg Pikhurko (University of Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Equivalent notions of rank for manifolds of non-positive curvature and for mapping class groups of surfaces

Cornelia Drutu, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Slope of moduli spaces of principally polarized abelian varieties

Riccardo Salvati Manni (Rome).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

DPMMS Presentations

Random walks in linear groups

Peter Varju, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

CMS, MR13.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Topology Seminar

Topology of definite fold singularities

Osamu Saeki (Kyushu).

MR15.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

New perspectives on the Breuil-Mézard conjecture

Toby Gee (Imperial).

MR13.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Classical Realizability

Jaap van Oosten, Utrecht.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Loop statistics for dimer models on the torus

Cedric Boutillier (Paris).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Strichartz estimates for the wave equation on flat cones and applications

Jeremy Marzuola (UNC Chapel Hill).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

How to produce a Ricci Flow via Cheeger-Gromoll exhaustion

Esther Cabezas-Rivas (Muenster).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

High-dimensional statistics

Rajen Shah.

CMS, MR12.

Monday 05 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Second-Order Comparison of Functional Data with Applications to DNA Geom

Victor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

An automorphism of a model of set theory that moves a countable ordinal down but does not move any natural number down

Zach McKenzie (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Explosive Percolation is Continuous

Lutz Warnke (University of Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

An Introduction to Weighted Limits.

Richard Garner.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

A generating function for higher Floer products and infinite-dimensional integrable systems

Oliver Fabert, Augsburg.

MR13.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Noncommutative toric geometry

Alastair Craw (Glasgow).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Global well-posedness and decay for the viscous surface wave problem without surface tension

Ian Tice (Universite Paris-Est Creteil).

CMS, MR4.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Topology Seminar

Stochastic Algebraic Topology

Michael Farber (Warwick).

MR15.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Category Theory Seminar

Restriction categories as enriched categories

Richard Garner, Macquarie University, Australia.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 15:00-15:45

Number Theory Seminar

Ranks of elliptic curves with prescribed torsion over number fields

Johan Bosman (Warwick).

MR13.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Multivariable adjunctions and mates

Eugenia Cheng, Sheffield.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:15-15:00

Probability

Random rigidity in the free group

Danny Calegari (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

A Variational Characterization of the Catenoid

Jacob Bernstein (Stanford).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 27 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the torus

Benoit Pausader (University of Paris 13).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 27 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Excursions of Brownian motion and some applications

Moritz Duembgen (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR12.

Monday 27 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

The structure of cubespaces attached to minimal distal dynamical systems

Yonatan Gutman (IHES).

MR15, CMS.

Friday 24 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Maximal percolation time in bootstrap percolation

Michal Przykucki (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

The Fundamental Theorem of Category Theory

Filip Bar.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

A gauge theoretic approach to the anti-self-dual Einstein equations

Joel Fine, Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

MR13.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Rational curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds with special divisors.

Simone Diverio (Paris VI).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

DPMMS Presentations

Probabilistic and dynamical aspects of Hamiltonian PDEs

Dr Tadahiro Oh, Princeton.

CMS, MR5.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Topology Seminar

2-strand twisting and knot homology

Andrew Lobb (Durham).

MR15.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Towards calculating the transcendental Brauer group

Alexei Skorobogatov (Imperial).

MR13.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Isomorphisms of types in the presence of higher-order references

Pierre Clairambault, Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Random Toeplitz matrices

Arnab Sen (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Second microlocal calculus: applications to the Schrödinger equation and to the damped wave equation on the torus

Nalini Anantharaman (Paris Orsay).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

A quick tour through dynamic programming

Pawel Zaczkowski.

CMS, MR12.

Monday 20 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation of the division rate of a size-structured population

Vincent Rivoirard, Université Paris-Dauphine.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Refined Structure Theorems in Additive Combinatorics

Tom Sanders (University of Oxford).

MR15, CMS.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data

Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Injective Hulls of Trivial Modules

Jonathan Nelson (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Bootstrap percolation with recovery

Karen Johannson (University of Memphis).

MR12.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Weighted limits and homotopy limits

Sori Lee.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Diffeomorphism types of compact G2 manifolds

Johannes Nordstrom, Imperial College.

MR13.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Fourier-Mukai transforms and applications

Daniel Hernández Ruipérez (Salamanca).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Topology Seminar

Taut depth one foliations and the sutured Floer polytope

Irida Altman (Warwick).

MR15.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Number theoretic applications of the theory of types for p-adic groups

Will Conley (UEA).

MR13.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Parameterized algebraic theories and computational effects

Sam Staton, Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Disorder, entropy and harmonic functions

Hugo Duminil (Geneva).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Finite time blowup of complex-valued solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries and the modified Korteweg-de Vries equations

Fred Weissler (University of Paris 13).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Analysis Seminar

Predicting, resolutions and the topological representation of operators on Banach spaces C(K)

Piotr Koszmider, Mathematical Institute of the Polish of Academy of Sciences.

MR5.

Monday 13 February 2012, 15:15-16:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to No-Arbitrage Pricing

Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR12.

Monday 13 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Safe Learning: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong

Peter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Higher Class Field Theory in Positive Characteristic

Kirsty Syder (University of Nottingham).

MR3.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Geometry of random groups

John Mackay, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Nef line bundles over finite fields

Adrian Langer (Warsaw).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Algebra Seminar

Automorphisms of free groups, hairy graphs and modular forms

Karen Vogtmann (Cornell).

MR15.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Another natural random triangulation of the disk

Wendelin Werner (Paris-Sud).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Topology Seminar

Pretzel knots with unknotting number one

Julian Gibbons (Imperial).

MR15.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

The conjectures of Tate, Beilinson and Bloch/Kato

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Applying Category Theory to conceptual questions in the foundations of Geometric Algebra

Filip Bar.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Branching Brownian motion with selection

Pascal Maillard (UPMC).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Hypocoercivity for some linear kinetic equations with a boundary

Frédéric Hérau (Nantes).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 06 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

Wicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Injective Hulls of Trivial Modules

Postponed

Jonathan Nelson (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Analytical and Combinatorial Problems via Probability

Jordan Stoyanov (University of Newcastle).

MR12.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Analytical and Combinatorial Problems via Probability

Joint Seminar with Combinatorics Series

Jordan Stoyanov (Newcastle).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Junior Category Theory Seminar

It's all about monoids! Algebras, coalgebras and Hopf algebras from a conceptual viewpoint.

Filip Bár.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics Reading Group

Robust Statistics: An Overview and Some Questions

Subhra Sankar Dhar, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Geometric inverse problems

Mikko Salo, Helsinki.

MR13.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The absence of stable Schottky relations

Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Connectivity properties of random interlacements

Balazs Rath (ETH, Zurich).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Topology Seminar

Exotic monotone Lagrangian tori

Agnès Gadbled (Cambridge).

MR15.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

An integral structure on rigid cohomology

Andreas Langer (Exeter).

MR13.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Omega-categories in terms of chain complexes

Richard Steiner, Glasgow.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Scaling limits for anisotropic Hastings-Levitov type clusters

Alan Sola (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

C^{1,α} regularity of solutions of degenerate elliptic equations

Cyril Imbert (Paris Est).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 30 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to Price Indices

James Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR12.

Monday 30 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection

Christian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Solving S-Unit Equations

Adam Harper (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Gluing theorems and power series

Michael Singer, Edinburgh.

MR13.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Semiregularity via derived deformation theory

Jon Pridham (Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Topology Seminar

On invariants of contact structures

Patrick Massot (Paris-Sud Orsay).

MR15.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

On the structure and relations of Selmer groups

Masato Kurihara (Keio).

MR13.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Energy of cutoff functions and heat kernel upper bounds

Martin Barlow (UBC).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

On the construction of analytic almost-sharp fronts for SQG

Jose Rodrigo (Warwick).

CMS, MR15.

Monday 23 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

TCP/IP: what does it do, and why does it work

Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR9.

Monday 23 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Random forests

Gérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 20 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Simplicial Objects

Dr Julia Goedecke.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Exact Lagrangian immersions with one double point

Ivan Smith, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 16:00-17:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Towards mirror symmetry for varieties of general type

Helge Ruddat (Mainz).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Organizational meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

CMS, MR9.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 13:00-14:00