Olivetti Club
Olivetti Club
List of Talks given in 2009-10
| Tuesday, September 1 | Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University A game of life on Penrose tilings |
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| Tuesday, September 8 | Anna Bertiger, Cornell University How to (almost) get rich using algebraic geometry |
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| Tuesday, September 15 | Mihai Bailesteanu, Cornell University The Sharovsky theorem - or how 3 is the largest natural number |
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| Tuesday, September 22 | Thomas Kern, Cornell University Equivalents of failures of the axiom of choice |
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| Tuesday, September 29 | Fatima Mahmood, Cornell University The math behind Sudoku |
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| Tuesday, October 6 | Benjamin Lundell, Cornell University Congruent numbers and special values of L-functions |
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| Friday, October 16 | Alan Agresti, University of Florida and Harvard University Pseudo-score confidence intervals for discrete statistical models |
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| Tuesday, October 20 | Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University Modal S4: the logic of space (among other things) |
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| Tuesday, October 27 | Sergio Pulido, Cornell University The fundamental theorems of finance |
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| Tuesday, November 3 | Gwyneth Whieldon, Cornell University What’s an anagram of Banach-Tarski? ... and other paradoxes of infinity |
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| Tuesday, November 10 | Jenna Rajchgot, Cornell University Groups, geometry, and … music? A few interesting appearances of math in music theory |
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| Tuesday, November 17 | Paul Shafer, Cornell University How hard is it to prove a theorem? |
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| Tuesday, November 24 | George Khachatryan, Cornell University Intersections in projective space |
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| Tuesday, December 1 | Saul Blanco, Cornell University Hook-length formulas |
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| Tuesday, January 26 | Jason Anema, Cornell University From fractals to zeta functions |
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| Tuesday, February 2 | Christopher Cunningham, Cornell University My computer can do middle school geometry |
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| Tuesday, February 9 | Marisa Belk, Cornell University Lattices and shellings and matroids! Oh, my! |
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| Tuesday, February 16 | Samuel Kolins, Cornell University This talk is brought to you by the letter g (or h, or f) |
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| Tuesday, March 2 | Thomas Kern, Cornell University Schrödinger’s computer: an introduction to quantum computation |
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| Friday, March 5 | Matthew Noonan, Cornell University Who’s afraid of the big bad totally nonlinear partial differential equation? |
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| Tuesday, March 9 | Gregory Muller, Cornell University My totally non-linear differential equations are better than Matt’s |
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| Tuesday, March 30 | Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University Bicycle math |
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| Tuesday, April 6 | Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University Gödel’s incompleteness theorem |
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| Tuesday, April 13 | Alex Fok, Cornell University The fundamental theorem of algebra revisited |
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| Tuesday, April 20 | Eyvindur Palsson, Cornell University The water wave problem |
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| Tuesday, April 27 | Andrew Marshall, Cornell University Categories for the unemployed mathematician |
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| Tuesday, May 4 | Saúl Blanco, Cornell University Latin squares and why we care |