Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 1999-2000

Tuesday, September 7   John Hubbard, Cornell University
Kolmogorov's theorem on conservation of invariant tori
Tuesday, September 14   Walker White, Cornell University
The importance of computable structures
Tuesday, September 21   Suzanne Lynch, Cornell University
The baby uniformization theorem: complex analysis at its best
Tuesday, October 5   David Brown, Cornell University
Moebius transformations, univalent maps and the mysterious Schwarzian derivative
Tuesday, October 19   William G. Ritter, Cornell University
Symplectic manifolds, topology and modern physics
Tuesday, October 26   David Revelle, Cornell University
Random walks on groups: the abridged version
Tuesday, November 2   Antal Jarai, Cornell University
Invasion percolation
Tuesday, November 9   Jean Cortissoz, Cornell University
On the Skorokhod almost sure representation theorem
Tuesday, November 16   José Escobar, Cornell University
The geometry of the first Steklov eigenvalue
Tuesday, November 30   Christopher Hruska, Cornell University
Group actions on trees
Tuesday, February 1   Roman Tymkiv, Cornell University
The concept of dimension in topology
Tuesday, February 8   Alan Demlow, Cornell University
Maximum norm estimates for the finite element method
Tuesday, February 15   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
A relationship; the implicit function theorem, cobordism of manifolds and stable homotopy theory
Tuesday, February 22   Noam Greenberg, Cornell University
Forcing: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love relative consistency results
Tuesday, February 29   William Gordon Ritter, Cornell University
Beautiful applications of category theory in many different branches of mathematics
Tuesday, March 7   Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University
The Hanna Neumann conjecture
Tuesday, March 14   Matthew Horak, Cornell University
Automatic groups
Tuesday, March 28   Christopher Francisco, Cornell University
An introduction to Gröbner bases and their applications
Tuesday, April 4   Joseph Miller, Cornell University
Decidable theories and automata
Tuesday, April 11   Leah Gold, Cornell University
Bringing syzygies down to earth
Tuesday, April 18   Lee Gibson, Cornell University
Sylvester's problem: proofs and exploration
Tuesday, April 25   Kathryn Nyman, Cornell University
From walking fruit flies to scheduling final exams; applications and characterizations of interval graphs
Tuesday, May 2   Yuri Berest, Cornell University
Geometry without points