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List of Talks
given in 2009-10
| Tuesday, September 1 |
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Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University
A game of life on Penrose tilings |
| Tuesday, September 8 |
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Anna Bertiger, Cornell University
How to (almost) get rich using algebraic geometry |
| Tuesday, September 15 |
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Mihai Bailesteanu, Cornell University
The Sharovsky theorem - or how 3 is the largest natural number |
| Tuesday, September 22 |
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Thomas Kern, Cornell University
Equivalents of failures of the axiom of choice |
| Tuesday, September 29 |
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Fatima Mahmood, Cornell University
The math behind Sudoku |
| Tuesday, October 6 |
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Benjamin Lundell, Cornell University
Congruent numbers and special values of L-functions |
| Friday, October 16 |
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Alan Agresti, University of Florida and Harvard University
Pseudo-score confidence intervals for discrete statistical models |
| Tuesday, October 20 |
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Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University
Modal S4: the logic of space (among other things) |
| Tuesday, October 27 |
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Sergio Pulido, Cornell University
The fundamental theorems of finance |
| Tuesday, November 3 |
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Gwyneth Whieldon, Cornell University
What’s an anagram of Banach-Tarski? ... and other paradoxes of infinity |
| Tuesday, November 10 |
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Jenna Rajchgot, Cornell University
Groups, geometry, and … music? A few interesting appearances of math in music theory |
| Tuesday, November 17 |
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Paul Shafer, Cornell University
How hard is it to prove a theorem? |
| Tuesday, November 24 |
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George Khachatryan, Cornell University
Intersections in projective space |
| Tuesday, December 1 |
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Saul Blanco, Cornell University
Hook-length formulas |
| Tuesday, January 26 |
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Jason Anema, Cornell University
From fractals to zeta functions |
| Tuesday, February 2 |
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Christopher Cunningham, Cornell University
My computer can do middle school geometry |
| Tuesday, February 9 |
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Marisa Belk, Cornell University
Lattices and shellings and matroids! Oh, my! |
| Tuesday, February 16 |
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Samuel Kolins, Cornell University
This talk is brought to you by the letter g (or h, or f) |
| Tuesday, March 2 |
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Thomas Kern, Cornell University
Schrödinger’s computer: an introduction to quantum computation |
| Friday, March 5 |
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Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
Who’s afraid of the big bad totally nonlinear partial differential equation? |
| Tuesday, March 9 |
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Gregory Muller, Cornell University
My totally non-linear differential equations are better than Matt’s |
| Tuesday, March 30 |
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Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University
Bicycle math |
| Tuesday, April 6 |
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Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem |
| Tuesday, April 13 |
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Alex Fok, Cornell University
The fundamental theorem of algebra revisited |
| Tuesday, April 20 |
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Eyvindur Palsson, Cornell University
The water wave problem |
| Tuesday, April 27 |
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Andrew Marshall, Cornell University
Categories for the unemployed mathematician |
| Tuesday, May 4 |
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Saúl Blanco, Cornell University
Latin squares and why we care |
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