Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 1996-97

Tue., September 17   Richard Ehrenborg, Cornell University
Two theorems and a lemma: one in combinatorics, one in topology and one in linear algebra
Tue., September 24   Ofer Porat, Cornell University
Secret sharing schemes
Tue., October 1   Hal Schenck, Cornell University
Algebra, geometry and combinatorics
Tue., October 8   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Cobordism and homology
Tue., October 29   Francis Fung, Princeton University
An introduction to Polya-Redfield enumeration
Tue., November 5   Ferenc Gerlits, Cornell University
The Banach-Tarski paradox
Tue., November 12   Kelly Wieand, Cornell University
Random walks and electric networks
Tue., November 19   Antal Jarai, Cornell University
On singular braids
Tue., November 26   Stephen Wills, Cornell University
A beginner's guide to quantum probability
Tue., December 3   Maria Fung, Cornell University
A peek into the theory of classical modular forms
Tue., February 4   Moss Sweedler, Cornell University
Conjugacy, orbits and fixed points: how and why
Tue., February 18   Joseph Miller, Cornell University
Integration in finite terms
Tue., February 25   Andrei Caldararu, Cornell University
What is the genus of an algebraic curve, and what is it good for?
Tue., March 4   John Hubbard, Cornell University
Why you can't solve x'=x^2-t using elementary functions, or indefinite integrals of those, etc.
Tue., March 11   Jason Fulman, Harvard University, visiting Cornell
An introduction to Hall polynomials
Tue., March 25   John Rosenthal, Ithaca College
Card shuffling and the Riemann hypothesis
Tue., April 1   Hal Schenck, Cornell University
Toric varieties
Tue., April 8   Reed Solomon, Cornell University
Hilbert's program and G�del's incompleteness theorem
Tue., April 15   Denis Hirschfeldt, Cornell University
The computably enumerable degrees and the priority method
Tue., April 22   Shayan Sen, Cornell University
Representations of semisimple Lie groups
Tue., April 29   Jeff Mitchell, Cornell University
The heat equation on compact Lie groups