What Is... Seminar

What Is... Seminar

List of Talks given in 2011-12

Wednesday, September 7   Reyer Sjamaar, Cornell University
What is a distribution (in the sense of L. Schwartz)?
Wednesday, September 21   Justin Moore, Cornell University
What is a large cardinal?
Wednesday, October 5   Timothy Riley, Cornell University
What is a Dehn function?
Wednesday, October 19   Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University
What is a random walk?
Wednesday, November 2   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
What is a matroid?
Wednesday, November 16   Yuri Berest, Cornell University
What is an integrable system?
Wednesday, November 30   Kenneth Brown, Cornell University
What is Thompson’s group?
Wednesday, February 15   Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell University
What is the Sato-Tate conjecture?
Wednesday, February 29   Clinton Conley, Cornell University
What is canonization?
Wednesday, March 14   Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University and Cornell University
What is an automorphic representation?
Wednesday, April 4   Peter Kahn, Cornell University
What is cobordism?
Wednesday, April 18   Leonard Gross, Cornell University
What are Yang-Mills fields
Wednesday, May 2   Mathias Lederer, Universität Bielefeld and Cornell University
What is a Schubert polynomial?