Olivetti Club
Olivetti Club
List of Talks given in 1996-97
| Tue., September 17 | Richard Ehrenborg, Cornell University Two theorems and a lemma: one in combinatorics, one in topology and one in linear algebra |
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| Tue., September 24 | Ofer Porat, Cornell University Secret sharing schemes |
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| Tue., October 1 | Hal Schenck, Cornell University Algebra, geometry and combinatorics |
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| Tue., October 8 | Ryan Budney, Cornell University Cobordism and homology |
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| Tue., October 29 | Francis Fung, Princeton University An introduction to Polya-Redfield enumeration |
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| Tue., November 5 | Ferenc Gerlits, Cornell University The Banach-Tarski paradox |
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| Tue., November 12 | Kelly Wieand, Cornell University Random walks and electric networks |
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| Tue., November 19 | Antal Jarai, Cornell University On singular braids |
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| Tue., November 26 | Stephen Wills, Cornell University A beginner's guide to quantum probability |
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| Tue., December 3 | Maria Fung, Cornell University A peek into the theory of classical modular forms |
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| Tue., February 4 | Moss Sweedler, Cornell University Conjugacy, orbits and fixed points: how and why |
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| Tue., February 18 | Joseph Miller, Cornell University Integration in finite terms |
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| Tue., February 25 | Andrei Caldararu, Cornell University What is the genus of an algebraic curve, and what is it good for? |
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| Tue., March 4 | John Hubbard, Cornell University Why you can't solve x'=x^2-t using elementary functions, or indefinite integrals of those, etc. |
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| Tue., March 11 | Jason Fulman, Harvard University, visiting Cornell An introduction to Hall polynomials |
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| Tue., March 25 | John Rosenthal, Ithaca College Card shuffling and the Riemann hypothesis |
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| Tue., April 1 | Hal Schenck, Cornell University Toric varieties |
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| Tue., April 8 | Reed Solomon, Cornell University Hilbert's program and G�del's incompleteness theorem |
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| Tue., April 15 | Denis Hirschfeldt, Cornell University The computably enumerable degrees and the priority method |
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| Tue., April 22 | Shayan Sen, Cornell University Representations of semisimple Lie groups |
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| Tue., April 29 | Jeff Mitchell, Cornell University The heat equation on compact Lie groups |