Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2007-08

Tuesday, August 28   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
The hidden algebra of Fourier
Tuesday, September 4   Peter Luthy, Cornell University
Quasiconformal mappings on the plane — not just an old, generic name
Tuesday, September 11   Denise Terry, Cornell University
Paper beats straight edge: constructing non-constructible things
Tuesday, September 18   Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University
The angel problem
Thursday, October 4   Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University
A little taste of symplectic geometry
Tuesday, October 16   Christopher Cunningham, Cornell University
Constructing (and playing) a field of games
Tuesday, October 23   Gwyn Whieldon, Cornell University
Fibonacci numbers and combinatorics
Thursday, November 1   Robert Moses, Cornell University (Rhodes visiting professor) and founder of the Algebra Project, Inc.
Mathematical issues in school mathematics
Tuesday, November 6   Joshua Bowman, Cornell University
Klein's quartic, 'tis of thee, sweet curve of genus 3, of thee I sing
Tuesday, November 13   Chris Lipa, Cornell University
What monodromy means to me
Tuesday, November 20   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
Divergent series for degenerate mathematicians!
Tuesday, November 27   Peter Samuelson, Cornell University
Dunkl operators
Tuesday, January 22   Gregory Muller, Cornell University
Chord diagrams and knot invariants
Tuesday, January 29   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
Same? Different?
Tuesday, February 5   Samuel Kolins, Cornell University
Geometry of polynomials
Tuesday, February 12   Russ Thompson, Cornell University
Random walks on groups
Tuesday, February 19   Ho Hon Leung, Cornell University
Jones polynomial and its interpretations
Friday, February 29   Benjamin Lundell, Cornell University
Differential Galois theory
Thursday, March 13   Andrew Marshall, Cornell University
Planar linkages
Tuesday, March 25   Ishmael Bachy, Cornell University
General symbolic dynamics
Tuesday, April 1   Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University
What is a connection, and what is it good for?
Tuesday, April 8   Corinne Sheridan, Cornell University
Factorization is fun (but not necessarily easy)
Tuesday, April 15   Alex Fok, Cornell University
Horn's problem
Tuesday, April 22   Joshua Bowman, Cornell University
The cocycle of life
Tuesday, April 29   Saúl Blanco, Cornell University
Some computational and combinatorial aspects of Coxeter groups