Olivetti Club

Olivetti Club

List of Talks given in 2011-12

Tuesday, August 30   Lucien Clavier, Cornell University
Visualizing Poincaré duality
Tuesday, September 6   Thomas Kern, Cornell University
How to make pretty pictures of knots
Tuesday, September 13   Scott Messick, Cornell University
Rather big numbers
Tuesday, September 20   Daniel Wong, Cornell University
Why Gauss’ gold is Langlands’ triviality
Tuesday, September 27   Thomas Rudelius, Cornell University
General relativity, the Schwarzschild solution, and the precession of the perihelion of mercury
Tuesday, October 25   Aaron Palmer, Cornell University
Optimal control of stochastic processes
Tuesday, November 1   Radoslav Zlatev, Cornell University
Cohen-Macaulay-ness for projective monomial curves
Tuesday, November 8   Iian Smythe, Cornell University
A crash course in topological groups
Tuesday, November 15   Hyungryul Baik, Cornell University
Universal circle
Tuesday, November 29   Adam Bjorndahl, Cornell University
Nash equilibrium and other solution concepts
Tuesday, January 24   Anna Bertiger, Cornell University
A non-commutative answer to a commutative problem? Schubert calculus and the Fomin-Kirilov algebra
Tuesday, January 31   Yash Lodha, Cornell University
Hyperbolic groups
Tuesday, February 7   Chor Hang Lam, Cornell University
S. S. for semi-simplicial spaces
Tuesday, February 14   Shisen Luo, Cornell University
Martingale — a powerful tool for solving gambling problems
Thursday, February 23   Tim Novikoff, Cornell University
Education of a model student
Friday, March 2   Scott Messick, Cornell University
Infinity plus one and other such numbers
Tuesday, March 6   Lucien Clavier, Cornell University
Continued fractions and Chabauty topology of R^2
Tuesday, March 13   Caitlin Cunningham, Cornell University
Markov chain methods for analyzing ChIP-Seq
Tuesday, March 27   Thomas Kern, Cornell University
Hilbert’s tenth problem and related results
Tuesday, April 10   Tianyi Zheng, Cornell University
The traveling salesman and lamplighter
Tuesday, April 17   Joe Chen, Cornell University
KPZ: A random surface growth model
Tuesday, April 24   Alex Fok, Cornell University
An invitation to geometric quantization