Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2005-06

Tuesday, August 30   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
An exceptional talk
Tuesday, September 6   Michael Robinson, Cornell University
Studying the bifurcation behavior of a nonlinear PDE
Tuesday, September 13   Melanie Pivarski, Cornell University
Poincar� inequalities: pleasant, yet informative
Tuesday, September 20   Joshua Bowman, Cornell University
Translation with a capital T, and that rhymes with B, and that stands for billiards!
Tuesday, September 27   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
Dividing by small numbers
Tuesday, October 4   Greg Muller, Cornell University
Knots, physics, and the Jones polynomial
Tuesday, October 25   Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University
The Lie bracket and the commutator of flows
Tuesday, November 8   Peter Samuelson, Cornell University
What non-positive curvature means to me
Tuesday, November 15   Abra Brisbin, Cornell University
The (nucleo)tides of time: probability and population genetics
Tuesday, November 22   Treven Wall and Sarah Koch, Cornell University
Minimum Sudoku sets: a problem-solving session
Tuesday, November 29   Jim Pivarski, Cornell University
Why stuff is hard
Tuesday, January 24   Greg Muller, Cornell University
Fun with cobordisms
Tuesday, January 31   Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University
A little Lie algebra cohomology, if you please
Tuesday, February 7   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
I challenge you to a unitary dual!
Tuesday, February 14   Will Gryc, Cornell University
Why the Sobolev function couldn't get a date for Valentine's day
Tuesday, February 21   Treven Wall, Cornell University
Thirteen ways of looking at a Sobolev space
Friday, March 3   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
Matt Noonan's magic mystery talk: nonlinear mathematics
Tuesday, March 7   Melanie Pivarski and Kristin Camenga, Cornell University
Mathematical cousins
Tuesday, March 14   Drew Armstrong, Cornell University
Euler's (other) constant
Tuesday, March 28   Michael O'Connor, Cornell University
Ordinals, proofs, and programs
Tuesday, April 4   Joshua Bowman, Cornell University
Pseudo-Anosov maps of a surface-ally docious (If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious)
Tuesday, April 11   Benjamin Chan, Cornell University
The way Google makes its money
Tuesday, April 18   Michael Robinson, Cornell University
Tug-of-war: how nonlinearity and the Laplacian interact
Tuesday, April 25   Greg Muller, Cornell University
Greg Muller strikes back
Tuesday, May 2   Sarah Koch, Cornell University
Some secrets of the Mandelbrot set and a glimpse of dynamics in C^2