Olivetti Club
Olivetti Club
List of Talks given in 2011-12
| Tuesday, August 30 | Lucien Clavier, Cornell University Visualizing Poincaré duality |
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| Tuesday, September 6 | Thomas Kern, Cornell University How to make pretty pictures of knots |
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| Tuesday, September 13 | Scott Messick, Cornell University Rather big numbers |
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| Tuesday, September 20 | Daniel Wong, Cornell University Why Gauss’ gold is Langlands’ triviality |
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| Tuesday, September 27 | Thomas Rudelius, Cornell University General relativity, the Schwarzschild solution, and the precession of the perihelion of mercury |
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| Tuesday, October 25 | Aaron Palmer, Cornell University Optimal control of stochastic processes |
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| Tuesday, November 1 | Radoslav Zlatev, Cornell University Cohen-Macaulay-ness for projective monomial curves |
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| Tuesday, November 8 | Iian Smythe, Cornell University A crash course in topological groups |
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| Tuesday, November 15 | Hyungryul Baik, Cornell University Universal circle |
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| Tuesday, November 29 | Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University Nash equilibrium and other solution concepts |
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| Tuesday, January 24 | Anna Bertiger, Cornell University A non-commutative answer to a commutative problem? Schubert calculus and the Fomin-Kirilov algebra |
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| Tuesday, January 31 | Yash Lodha, Cornell University Hyperbolic groups |
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| Tuesday, February 7 | Chor Hang Lam, Cornell University S. S. for semi-simplicial spaces |
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| Tuesday, February 14 | Shisen Luo, Cornell University Martingale — a powerful tool for solving gambling problems |
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| Thursday, February 23 | Tim Novikoff, Cornell University Education of a model student |
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| Friday, March 2 | Scott Messick, Cornell University Infinity plus one and other such numbers |
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| Tuesday, March 6 | Lucien Clavier, Cornell University Continued fractions and Chabauty topology of R^2 |
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| Tuesday, March 13 | Caitlin Cunningham, Cornell University Markov chain methods for analyzing ChIP-Seq |
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| Tuesday, March 27 | Thomas Kern, Cornell University Hilbert’s tenth problem and related results |
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| Tuesday, April 10 | Tianyi Zheng, Cornell University The traveling salesman and lamplighter |
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| Tuesday, April 17 | Joe Chen, Cornell University KPZ: A random surface growth model |
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| Tuesday, April 24 | Alex Fok, Cornell University An invitation to geometric quantization |