Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2006-07

Tuesday, August 29   Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University
Good news, everyone! Group actions, torsors, and affine space
Tuesday, September 5   John Workman, Cornell University
When entropy attacks
Tuesday, September 12   Gwyneth Whieldon, Cornell University
Khinchin’s constant and the ergodic theorem
Tuesday, September 19   Benjamin Lundell, Cornell University
An introduction to the p-adic numbers
Tuesday, September 26   Greg Muller, Cornell University
Sporadic groups and exceptionally sporadic objects
Tuesday, October 3   Michael O’Connor, Cornell University
Introduction to linear logic and related systems
Tuesday, October 17   Jessica Zuniga, Cornell University
Analysis of shuffles
Tuesday, October 24   Mia Minnes, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, October 31   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
One idea — three costumes
Tuesday, November 7   Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University
Large cardinals
Tuesday, November 21   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
A soapy guide to geometry
Tuesday, November 28   Chris Lipa, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, January 30   Greg Muller, Cornell University
Sheaves, schemes and why you care
Tuesday, February 6   Gwyneth Whieldon, Cornell University
An introduction to discrete Morse theory
Tuesday, February 13   Jonathan Needleman, Cornell University
Grassmanians and varieties
Tuesday, February 20   Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University
The happy end problem
Friday, March 2   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
What geometry means to me (sometimes)
Tuesday, March 6   Youssef El Fassy Fihry, Cornell University
Feynman diagrams
Tuesday, April 3   Saul Blanco Rodriguez, Cornell University
Title TBA
Tuesday, April 10   Benjamin Lundell, Cornell University
The prime number theorem
Tuesday, April 17   Chris Lipa, Cornell University
Pool on tricked out tables
Tuesday, April 24   Russ Thompson, Cornell University
Cool things happen at big parties
Tuesday, May 1   Ben Chan, Cornell University
Title TBA