Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2000-01

Tuesday, August 29   Todd Kemp, Cornell University
A new computational grid for colliding black holes or Why differential geometry is cool
Tuesday, September 5   David Revelle, Cornell University
How to lose money gambling
Tuesday, September 12   Noam Greenberg, Cornell University
Non-standard analysis
Tuesday, September 19   Richard Durrett, Cornell University
Opportunities for graduate students in our VIGRE program
Tuesday, September 26   Steven Sinnott, Cornell University
Minimal polynomials and discriminants
Tuesday, October 3   Joe Miller, Cornell University
The semi-algebraic sets are closed under projection and Why a logician proved it
Tuesday, October 17   Ferenc Gerlits, Cornell University
Turning spheres inside out
Tuesday, October 24   James Belk, Cornell University
Algebraic graph theory
Tuesday, October 31   Chris Hruska, Cornell University
Nonpositive curvature and the CAT(0) inequality
Tuesday, November 7   Suzanne Lynch Hruska, Cornell University
An introduction to the complex Henon map
Friday, November 10   Gordon Ritter, Cornell University
Mathematics and physics of mirror symmetry
Tuesday, November 14   Christopher Francisco, Cornell University
Hilbert functions
Tuesday, November 28   Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University
Quantum groups and differential forms
Tuesday, January 30   David Revelle, Cornell University
Homeward bound: the inefficient journey
Tuesday, February 6   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Configuration spaces
Tuesday, February 13   Todd Kemp, Cornell University
An algebraic proof of Wiener's theorem
Tuesday, February 20   Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University
Kontsevich made easy
Tuesday, February 27   Christopher Hardin, Cornell University
What set existence axioms are needed to prove the mean value theorem?
Tuesday, March 6   Alan Demlow, Cornell University
Mixed methods: the ups and downs of approximating saddle point problems
Tuesday, March 27   Nelia Charalambous, Cornell University
Volume comparison and the growth of the fundamental group on Riemannian manifolds
Tuesday, April 3   Amy Szczepanski, Cornell University
Nullstellensatz variations
Tuesday, April 10   Nathaniel Miller, Cornell University
Diagrams in geometry and the relationship between formal and informal mathematics
Tuesday, April 17   Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Cornell University
Finite injury and the Turing degrees: life isn't fair, but it's close enough
Tuesday, April 24   Huibin Zhou, Cornell University
Wavelets and statistics
Tuesday, May 1   Lee Gibson, Cornell University
Exploring mathematical biology