Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2008-09

Tuesday, September 2   Greg Muller, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, September 9   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, September 16   Sarah Koch, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, September 23   Anna Bertiger, Cornell University
Formal power series are friends, not food
Tuesday, September 30   Marisa Belk, Cornell University
Matroid prime: binary spherical quotients
Tuesday, October 7   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, October 21   Peter Luthy, Cornell University
Stupid sounding linear algebra problems can be profound
Tuesday, October 28   Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University
A measurable butterfly effect
Tuesday, November 4   Hannah Newfield-Plunkett, Cornell University
F, T, V and all that: an introduction to Thompson’s groups
Tuesday, November 11   Ismael Bachy, Cornell University
Equidistribution
Tuesday, November 18   Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University
A topological menagerie
Tuesday, November 25   Saul Blanco Rodriguez, Cornell University
The RSK algorithm
Tuesday, December 2   Jennifer Biermann, Cornell University
The Rubik’s cube group
Tuesday, January 27   Peter Samuelson, Cornell University
Old tricks explained
Tuesday, February 3   Peter Luthy, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, February 10   John Hubbard, Cornell University
The meaning of curvature
Tuesday, February 17   Raluca Tanase, Cornell University
Internet mathematics
Tuesday, February 24   Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University
What’s purple and commutes, and ends with “oid”
Friday, March 6   Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University
Ultrafilters, infinitesimals, and calculus without limits
Tuesday, March 24   Yasemin Kara, Cornell University
The Prime number theorem with the error bound
Tuesday, March 31   Eyvindur Palsson, Cornell University
Singular integral operators
Tuesday, April 7   Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University
Automatic groups
Tuesday, April 14   Alex Fok, Cornell University
From the Octonians to Bott periodicity
Tuesday, April 21   Remus Radu, Cornell University
Invariant laminations and Julia sets
Tuesday, April 28   Marisa Belk, Cornell University
The Tutte polynomial