Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2004-05

Tuesday, August 31   Todd Kemp, Cornell University
Fock spaces and duality: an introduction to infinite dimensional analysis
Tuesday, September 7   Sarah Koch, Cornell University
Splashing around in the basins: visualizing the dynamics of Newton's method in two complex variables
Tuesday, September 21   Artem Pulemyotov, Cornell University
Hilbert riggings and generalized eigenvectors
Tuesday, September 28   Michael O'Connor, Cornell University
Playing games on the real line
Tuesday, October 5   Gregory Muller, Cornell University
Penrose tilings and other aperiodic tilings
Tuesday, October 19   Ron Maimon, Gene Network Sciences
Biological combinatorics
Tuesday, October 26   James Belk, Cornell University
Groups acting on trees
Tuesday, November 2   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
Cantor set for president
Tuesday, November 9   Treven Wall, Cornell University
Have we really solved Laplace's equation?
Tuesday, November 16   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
The geometry of electromagnetism
Tuesday, November 23   Hasanjan Sayit, Cornell University
Simple predictible processes and the no arbitrage property
Tuesday, November 30   Roland Roeder, Cornell University
On Poincaré's compactification of polynomial vector fields in the plane
Tuesday, January 25   Todd Kemp, Cornell University
Hypercontractivity and the central limit theorem
Tuesday, February 1   Gregory Hjorth, University of California at Los Angeles
An isolation theorem for groups of isometries
Tuesday, February 8   Spencer Hamblen, Cornell University
Lifting Galois representations: variations on a conjecture of Serre
Tuesday, February 15   Sarah Koch, Michael O'Connor, Jonathan Needleman, et. al, Cornell University
A potpourri of fun mathematical proofs
Tuesday, February 22   Benjamin Chan, Cornell University
A model for sexual reproduction
Friday, March 4   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
1 + 2 + 3 + … = –1/12, no forest has more than 6 trees, and other abstract nonsense
Tuesday, March 8   Kristen Camenga, Cornell University
Faces and angles of polytopes
Tuesday, March 15   Drew Armstrong, Cornell University
The mystery of the Catalan numbers
Tuesday, March 29   Joshua Bowman, Cornell University
Royden's theorem on isometries of Teichm�ller space
Tuesday, April 5   Michael O'Connor, Cornell University
The recreational mathematics of hats and lightbulbs
Tuesday, April 12   Treven Wall, Cornell University
Using one fish to feed 5,000
Tuesday, April 19   Gwyneth Whieldon, Cornell University
Climbing trees and counting solutions
Tuesday, April 26   David Biddle, Cornell University
What do determinants and Euler characteristics have in common?
Tuesday, May 3   Todd Kemp, Cornell University
Fun with Fourier!