Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 1997-98

Tue., September 9		David Revelle, Cornell University Kolmogorov's solution to Hilbert's 13th problem
Tue., September 16		Christian Bluhm, Cornell University Fourier asymptotics of fractal measures
Tue., September 23		Richard Durrett, Cornell University Subadditivity: a super idea
Tue., September 30		Ferenc Gerlits, Cornell University Electronic money
Tue., October 7		Moon Duchin, Cornell University Geometry of numbers
Tue., October 21		Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University Descent classes of permutations and Gessel's conjecture
Tue., October 28		David Brown, Cornell University Complex prime producing quadratics
Tue., November 4		Andrei Caldararu, Cornell University Blow-ups, birational geometry, and Mori's conjecture
Tue., November 11		Hal Schenck, Cornell University Introduction to hyperplane arrangements
Tue., November 18		Maria Fung, Cornell University Unitary matrices, the Riemann sphere and the Borel-Weil theorem
Tue., November 25		Shannon Kelly, Cornell University Problems in the estimation of drift and volatility from a sample path of a stochastic differential equation
Tue., February 3		Debra Boutin, Cornell University Visualizing in Aut(F_n)
Tue., February 10		Fermat's last theorem: the proof (NOVA Adventures in Science Video)
Tue., February 17		Henry Matzinger, Cornell University Cool reconstructions
Tue., February 24		Rick Cleary, Cornell University and St. Michael's College The file drawer problem and the strength of scientific evidence
Tue., March 3		Sze-Man Ngai, Cornell University Self-similarity in fractals, wavelets and tilings
Tue., March 10		Shu-Yen Pan, Cornell University Buildings and classical groups
Tue., March 24		Shayan Sen, Cornell University Representations of semisimple Lie groups
Tue., March 31		Ed Bueler, MSRI Old and newer quantum mechanics
Tue., April 7		Cathy Stenson, Cornell University Mathematics and drug design
Tue., April 28		Chris Hruska, Cornell University The geometry of surfaces and three-manifolds