Fall 2009 Schedule

Sept 18, 2009:

TBA

Sept 25, 2009:

Cancelled this week for Courant Instructor Day

Oct 2, 2009:

Stephen Childress
Symmetry and Locomotion

Oct 9, 2009:

Marco Avellaneda
Statistical arbitrage in US equity markets

Oct 16, 2009:

Jani Virtanen
Toeplitz operators on Bergman spaces

Oct 23, 2009:

Oliver Buhler
The fluid dynamics of quantum vortices

Oct 30, 2009:

Steve Heilman
Orthogonal Polynomials with Respect to Self-Similar Measures

Louis-Pierre Arguin
Uniqueness of ground states for short-range spin glasses

Nov 6, 2009:

Robert Kohn
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation

Nov 13, 2009:

Bror Jonsson
Using Lagrangian trajectories for something useful: tracking satellite chlorophyll with the help of numerical models

Themis Sapsis
Dynamics of Inertial Particles in Fluid Flows

Nov 20, 2009:

Srinivasa Varadhan
Martin Boundary

Nov 27, 2009:

No seminar -- Thanksgiving

Dec 4, 2009:

Mikael Rechtsman
Experiments on gaps in spectral graphs and why glass is see-through

Cloe Tergiman
Entrepreneurship Does Pay

Dec 11, 2009 **Special Time: 11:30-12:30**:

Dennis Shasha
Upstart Puzzles