Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2001-02

Tuesday, September 11   Sam Hsiao, Cornell University
The upper bound conjecture and the importance of being Cohen-Macauley
Tuesday, September 18   G. Christopher Hruska, Cornell University
Hyperbolic groups and their boundaries
Tuesday, September 25   Noam Greenberg, Cornell University
The constructible universe and the continuum hypothesis
Tuesday, October 2   Sarah Spence, Cornell University
Generalized coset codes and lattices
Tuesday, October 16   Kristin Camenga, Cornell University
Ramsey theory on graphs and hypergraphs
Tuesday, October 23   Nelia Charalambous, Cornell University
A classification of three-dimensional noncompact manifolds with nonnegative curvature
Tuesday, October 30   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Symmetry in topology
Tuesday, November 6   Leah Gold, Cornell University
The number of lines on a nonsingular cubic surface
Tuesday, November 13   Fernando Schwartz, Cornell University
Soap bubbles
Tuesday, November 20   Steve Morris, Cornell University
J-holomorphic curves and bubbling in symplectic topology
Tuesday, November 27   Suzanne Hruska, Cornell University
A tour of the Mandelbrot set
Tuesday, December 4   Todd Kemp, Cornell University
Integrals and derivatives
Tuesday, January 22   Joseph Miller, Cornell University
Computable analysis: Brouwer's theorem and fixable sets
Tuesday, January 29   David Revelle, Cornell University
There ain't no way to measure that there table!
Tuesday, February 12   Jason Martin, Cornell University
An algebraic version of Dynkin's $\pi-\lambda$ theorem
Tuesday, February 19   James Belk, Cornell University
Amenability and the Banach-Tarski paradox
Tuesday, February 26   Lee Gibson, Cornell University
The rabbit in the woods, or the method of enlargement of obstacles
Tuesday, March 5   G. Christopher Hruska, Cornell University
Isolated flats, or nearly hyperbolic spaces
Tuesday, March 12   Serguei Slavnov, Cornell University
Between logic and mathematics
Tuesday, March 26   Treven Wall, Cornell University
A survey of some good elliptic curve cryptosystems, or Wow, algebra really can be useful!
Friday, April 5   Todd Kemp, Cornell University
Vector fields on spheres: an analytic approach
Tuesday, April 9   Alan Demlow, Cornell University
Localization in finite element methods, or How local can you go?
Tuesday, April 16   Will Gryc, Cornell University
Wavelets and multiresolution analysis
Tuesday, April 23   Fernando Schwartz, Cornell University
The Riemannian Penrose conjecture and some other cool stuff from general relativity
Tuesday, April 30   Gil Rosenberg, Cornell University
Frege structures: balancing the axiom of abstraction with the rules of logic