Departmental Colloquium - Spring 2009
Usually meets Friday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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January 14
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Hyman Bass & Mark Thames
University of Michigan |
The Role of Definitions in Teaching, Learning, and Doing Mathematics: An Example of MKT |
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January 16
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January 23
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January 30
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February 6
|
Alan Frieze
Carnegie Mellon |
Random Graphs |
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February 13
|
Michael Singer
North Carolina State University |
Differential Groups and the Gamma Function |
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February 20
|
Alex Iosevich
University of Missouri at Columbia |
Geometric configurations in Euclidean and discrete settings. |
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February 27
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March 6
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Charlie Doering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Twist \& Shout: Maximal enstrophy production in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations |
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March 13
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Ted Chinburg
University of Pennsylvania |
Finiteness theorems in arithmetic geometry |
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March 20
|
John Smillie
Cornell University |
Polygonal billiards and low complexity dynamical systems |
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March 27
|
No seminar
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Spring Break |
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April 3
|
Bettina Pedemonte
ITD - CNR Genova |
AlNuSet: A dynamic system for learning algebra |
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April 10
|
William McCallum
University of Arizona |
Excavating High School Mathematics |
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April 17
|
Bernd Sturmfels
U.C. Berkeley |
Convex Algebraic Geometry |
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April 24
|
Benjamin Miller
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Forceless, ineffective, powerless proofs of descriptive set-theoretic dichotomy theorems |
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May 1
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