Oliver Club

Thursdays at 4:00 PM in Malott 532 (Lounge)

The Oliver Club is named for James Edward Oliver (1829-1895), former chair of the Mathematics Department. The talks are intended for a general mathematical audience, including graduate students. Tea and cookies are served in the Mathematics Department lounge (532 Malott Hall) before each talk.

2023-24 Oliver Club Secretaries: Daniel Stern, Yusheng Luo

E.g., 2024 Apr 19
E.g., 2024 Apr 19
Thu Jan 25, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Hemant MishraCornell University
Equality in some symplectic eigenvalue inequalities
Fri Jan 26, 2024
2:30 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Alexander BettsHarvard University
The Section Conjecture as a bridge between Topology and Number Theory
Mon Jan 29, 2024
3:30 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Caelan WangUniversity of Manitoba
Teaching Curve Sketching using Game-Based Learning
Thu Feb 1, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Mihai AlbouiYale University
Teaching For Student Growth
Mon Feb 5, 2024
3:30 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Prairie Wentworth-NiceCornell University
Helping students learn from their mistakes
Thu Feb 8, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Indira ChatterjiUniversité de Nice
Groups and geometry
Thu Feb 15, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Anton MosunovUniversity of Waterloo
Representations of Integers by Binary Forms
Thu Feb 29, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Alex KontorovichRutgers University
The Shape of Math to Come
Thu Mar 14, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Kui RenColumbia University
Inverse problems to mean field game systems: analysis and computation
Thu Mar 21, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Marius JungeUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Concentration and Log-Sobolev inequalities: From classical to quantum
Thu Mar 28, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Sheila SundaramUniversity of Minnesota
Poset homology, Stirling numbers, and Koszul duals
Thu Apr 11, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Kiran KedlayaUC San Diego
Space vectors forming rational angles
Thu Apr 18, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Michael HarrisColumbia University
What is the Langlands program about?
Thu Apr 25, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 532 (Lounge)
Fri May 3, 2024
4:00 PM
Malott 253 (Location updated)
Martin BridsonOxford University
Profinite rigidity, Grothendieck Pairs, and finiteness properties

For more information about the Oliver Club, including a bit of history and posters from previous years, go to pi.math.cornell.edu/~oliver.