Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 1998-99

Tuesday, September 8   Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University
Eulerian partially ordered sets and the cd-index
Tuesday, September 15   Catherine Stenson, Cornell University
DNA and topology
Tuesday, September 22   Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell University
Algebra and analysis in number theory
Tuesday, September 29   David Revelle, Cornell University
The drunk who starved to death (and other lessons from Mardi Gras)
Tuesday, October 6   Suzanne Lynch, Cornell University
Polynomial matings and the medusa algorithm
Tuesday, October 20   Suman Ganguli, Cornell University
How to know if you have mud on your forehead: an introduction to reasoning about knowledge
Tuesday, October 27   David Brown, Cornell University
Spider algorithm, complex dynamics and combinatorics
Tuesday, November 3   Walker White, Cornell University
Nonstandard probability: discrete math for graduate students
Tuesday, November 10   Leah Gold, Cornell University
Rings and the combinatorics of simplicial complexes
Tuesday, November 24   Irena Peeva, Cornell University
Monomial resolutions
Tuesday, December 1   Antal Jarai, Cornell University
A brief introduction to percolation
Tuesday, February 2   Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University
Coxeter groups
Tuesday, February 16   Thomas Ungar, North Dakota State University
The Thomas precession
Tuesday, February 23   Sudeb Mitra, Cornell University
Quasiconformal mappings, holomorphic motions and Teichmüller spaces
Tuesday, March 2   David Brown, Cornell University
Complex dynamics of the exponential map
Tuesday, March 9   Antal Jarai, Cornell University
Phase transitions and percolation
Tuesday, March 16   Matthew Horak, Cornell University
Group presentations
Tuesday, March 30   Henrique Araujo, Cornell University
Differentiable manifolds and PDE
Tuesday, April 6   Chris Hruska, Cornell University
An introduction to hyperbolic groups
Tuesday, April 13   Steve Sinnott, Cornell University
Grobner bases
Tuesday, April 20   Alan Demlow, Cornell University
An introduction to finite element methods
Tuesday, April 27   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
The Cauchy-Crofton theorem