School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Math Club Lectures

Spring 2008

  • Location: 120 Vincent Hall (enclosed area)
  • Time: Thursday at 12:10 pm


    Thursday, January 24: Professor Vladimir Sverak
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    "Why is it hard to calculate fluid flows?"


    Thursday, January 31: Professor Paul Garrett,
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    "Number theory and harmonic analysis on non-Euclidean spaces"

    Thursday, February 7: TBA

    Thursday, February 14: Professor Igor Pak,
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    TBA

    Thursday, February 21: Professor Victor Reiner,
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    The art gallery theorem, or "How should one guard the Weisman Museum?"

    Thursday, February 28: Student presentations: Xiaowen Cheng, James Kolles
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Mathematical report from the AMS annual meeting, San Diego, January 2008.

    Thursday, March 6: Professor Donald Kahn
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Some math and music

    Thursday, March 13
    "Knot Not"

    Thursday, March 20
    Spring Break

    Thursday, March 27: Professor Douglas Arnold
    Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
    Doing the "Möbius Transformations Revealed" animation

    Thursday, April 3: Professor Steven Sperber
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Honors program in mathematics

    Thursday, April 10
    Patrick Campbell

    Thursday, April 17: Al Marden
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Moebius Transformations: Why they are of fundamental importance in contemporary geometry

    Thursday, April 24: Gilad Lerman
    School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    "High Dimensional Sine Functions: Something Old, Something New"