Olivetti Club

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