Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Have you heard the urban legend that an experienced college recruiter can make an initial decision on whether or not to read your resume in less than six seconds? Would you like to see if your current resume can survive the six-second glance?Would you like to improve your chances of surviving the initial cut? Do you know what happens to your resume once you hand it to the recruiter? How do you craft a resume that competes with 100,000 other resumes? Dr. Matthew Clark has supported college recruiting efforts for a variety of large corporations and is a master at sorting resumes in six seconds or under. Join us August 28th, 2013 in Skiles 005 at noon for a discussion of how most industry companies handle resumes, what types of follow up activities are worth-while, and, how to improve your chances of having your resume pass the "six second glance".

Volume preserving maps naturally arise in the study of many natural phenomena including incompressible fluid-flows, magnetic field-line flows, granular mixing, and celestial mechanics. Codimension one invariant tori play a fundamental role in the dynamics of these maps as they form boundaries to transport; orbits that begin on one side cannot cross to the other. In this talk I will present a Fourier-based, quasi-Newton scheme to compute the invariant tori of three-dimensional volume-preserving maps. I will further show how this method can be used to predict the perturbation threshold for their destruction and study the mechanics of their breakup.

We will discuss how to define two invariants of knots using sutured Heegaard Floer homology, contact structures and limiting processes. These invariants turn out to be a reformulation of the plus and minus versions of knot Heegaard Floer homology and thus give a``sutured interpretation'' of these invariants and point to a deep connection between Heegaard Floer theory and contact geometry. If time permits we will also discuss the possibility of defining invariants of non-compact manifolds and of contact structures on such manifolds.

Equilibrium computation is among the most significant additions to the theory of algorithms and computational complexity in the last decade - it has its own character, quite distinct from the computability of optimization problems. Our contribution to this evolving theory can be summarized in the following sentence: Natural equilibrium computation problems tend to exhibit striking dichotomies. The dichotomy for Nash equilibrium, showing a qualitative difference between 2-Nash and k- Nash for k > 2, has been known for some time. We establish a dichotomy for market equilibrium. For this purpose. we need to define the notion of Leontief-free functions which help capture the joint utility of a bundle of goods that are substitutes, e.g., bread and bagels. We note that when goods are complements, e.g., bread and butter, the classical Leontief function does a splendid job. Surprisingly enough, for the former case, utility functions had been defined only for special cases in economics, e.g., CES utility function. We were led to our notion from the high vantage point provided by an algorithmic approach to market equilibria. Note: Joint work with Jugal Garg and Ruta Mehta.