MEETING-DATE:March 15, 2012
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:11:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Philippe Lamoureux
MEETING-CHAIRPIC:philippe-bright.jpg 	
COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Bill
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Ben & <del>Jerry</del> Tiff
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Marta
FORTH-DATE1:March 22, 2012
FORTH-DATE2:March 29, 2012
FORTH-DATE3:April 5, 2012
FORTH-DATE4:April 12, 2012
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-CHAIR1:Stephen Mann
FORTH-CHAIR2:Lesley Northam
FORTH-CHAIR3:Simon Parent
FORTH-CHAIR4:Alex Pytel
FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:smann.jpg
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FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:Simon.png
FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:alex.png
FORTH-TP1:Ben Lafreniere
FORTH-TP2:Philippe Lamoureux
FORTH-TP3:Stephen Mann
FORTH-TP4:Lesley Northam
FORTH-TPPIC1:ben.jpg
FORTH-TPPIC2:philippe-bright.jpg 	
FORTH-TPPIC3:smann.jpg
FORTH-TPPIC4:LNortham.png
TPNAME:Marta Kryven
TPTITLE:What is inside origami?
TPABSTRACT:An introduction to advanced origami design. In this talk I will show how origami is a problem of packing circles, and what do you need to know in order to make almost anything out of a flat sheet of material.
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AIONE:Discuss Curtis' performance on Top Chef Canada.
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SEMINARS:<dl><nl><dt>Thursday, 15 March 2012, <b>2:00AM</b> - Pure Mathematics (Student Algebra), MC 5046 </dt><nl><dd>Robert Garbary: -- "First Examples of Spectral Sequences" </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Thursday, 15 March 2012, 10:30AM - Applied Mathematics , MC 5136 </dt><nl><dd>Dr. Itai Arad: -- How complicated are many-body quantum states? </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Thursday, 15 March 2012, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar), MC 5136B </dt><nl><dd>Maysum Panju: -- "Listing polynomials given restrictions on their roots" </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Thursday, 15 March 2012, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Computability Learning), MC 5046 <nl><dd>Matthew Harrison-Trainor: -- A low2 model of RT2. </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Thursday, 15 March 2012, 4:00PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , M3 3127</dt><nl><dd>Bruce L. Jones: -- Credibility for Pension Plan Terminations </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Friday, 16 March 2012, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158 </dt><nl><dd>Hyung-Chan An: -- Improving Christofides' Algorithm for the s-t Path TSP </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Friday, 16 March 2012, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5136</dt><nl><dd>Jason Bell: -- "Diagonals of rational functions, differential equations, and automata" </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Monday, 19 March 2012, <b>2:30AM</b> - Pure Mathematics (Geometry & Topology Seminar), MC 5136 </dt><nl><dd>Andrew Dancer: -- "Ricci solitons" </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Monday, 19 March 2012, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC 1304 </dt><nl><dd>Swapnil V. Patil: -- Scaling and understanding storage system support for billions of tiny objects </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 4:00PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science, M3 3127 (New Location)</dt><nl><dd>Prof. Tong Yu: -- By Force of Habitat? On the Dynamics of Insurers' Government Bond Portfolio Durations </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Wednesday, 21 March 2012, <b>3:30AM</b> - Pure Mathematics (Geometry & Topology Seminar), MC 5045 </dt><nl><dd>Cheol-Hyun Cho: -- "Lagrangian Floer homology and toric oribfolds" </dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 10:00AM - Computer Science , MC 5158 NOTE TIME AND ROOM</dt><nl><dd>Yizhou Sun: -- Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks </dd><nl> </dl><nl><nl><script type="text/javascript"><nl><nl>window.onload=function()<nl>{<nl>  var img=null;<nl><nl>  var divs=document.getElementsByTagName("div");<nl>  for (var i = 0; i < divs.length; ++i)<nl>  {<nl>    if (divs[i].className == "img-shadow")<nl>    {<nl>      img = divs[i].children[0]<nl>      break;<nl>    }<nl>  }<nl>  <nl>  if ((img != null) && (img.width > 250))<nl>    img.style.width = "250px";<nl>}<nl><nl></script>