Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2010-11

Tuesday, September 7   Daniel Wong, Cornell University
How do we play on characters?
Tuesday, September 14   Thomas Kern, Cornell University
Gems from Budapest!
Tuesday, September 21   Samuel Kolins, Cornell University
Simplicial complexes gone wild
Tuesday, September 28   Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University
A tour through non-classical logics
Tuesday, October 5   Andrew Marshall, Cornell University
An historical survey of sphere problems in topology
Tuesday, October 19   Gwyneth Whieldon, Cornell University
Combinatorics from THE BOOK
Tuesday, October 26   Caitlin Cunningham, Cornell University
How I spent my summer vacation: finding bipartite structure in graphs
Tuesday, November 2   Shisen Luo, Cornell University
Quasitoric manifolds
Tuesday, November 9   Joe Po-Chou Chen, Cornell University
Counting photons in a fractal box
Tuesday, November 16   Hyungryul Baik, Cornell University
Then Fenchel Nielsen coordinates of Teichmüller space
Tuesday, November 23   Yash Lodha, Cornell University
Thompson’s group F
Tuesday, November 30   Marisa Hughes, Cornell University
Orbifolds are my friends
Thursday, January 27   Andrew Marshall, Cornell University
Embedding the tetrahedral graph, K_4, in R^3
Tuesday, February 1   Thomas Kern, Cornell University
Tiling problems
Tuesday, February 8   Peter Luthy, Cornell University
A discussion of the periodic table of elements
Tuesday, February 15   Gwyneth Whieldon, Cornell University
Primor(d)ial soup
Tuesday, February 22   Jennifer Biermann, Cornell University
You say you want a resolution
Friday, March 4   Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University
Life as an algorithm
Tuesday, March 8   Mariya Bessonov, Cornell University
The voter model
Tuesday, March 15   Kai Fong Ernest Chong, Cornell University
Why Bruhat is not weak
Tuesday, March 29   Laura Escobar, Cornell University
Tropical linear spaces
Thursday, April 7   Scott Messick, Cornell University
What’s the point of a fixed point theorem? Why L.E.J. Brouwer renounced his own results and rebelled against 20th century mathematics
Tuesday, April 12   Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University
Non-monotonic reasoning
Tuesday, April 19   Alex Fok, Cornell University
The cohomology of compact Lie groups
Tuesday, April 26   Igors Gorbovickis, Cornell University
Permutations of periodic points of polynomial maps
Tuesday, May 3   Saúl Blanco, Cornell University
Parking functions