Fall 2008
Date Speaker Topic
September 16 Francis Valiquette Equivalence Problems
September 23 Prof. Carme Calderer Why a summer internship?
September 30 Antoine Choffrut From Euler's equations to Euler's equations
October 7 Tyler Whitehouse Discrete curvatures, least squares errors, and the ''quantitative geometry'' of measures
October 14 Walter Rusin The Banach-Tarski Paradox in 20 Slides
October 21 Alexander Miller Combinatorics and Algebra
October 28 Nathan Williams An Alternating Sum of Alternating Sign Matrices
November 4 Alexander Hanhart Morse Theory
November 11 Not Meeting
November 18 Benjamin Rosenfield Arithmetic, Geometry, and Modularity
November 25 Guoyi Xu General Relativity in Mathematical Language: The Geometric and PDE View Point
December 2 Stephen McIntyre Introduction to the Immersed Boundary Method
December 9 Andrew Berget The Tutte Polynomial