Smorgasbord Seminar (MATH 402)
Smorgasbord Seminar (MATH 402)
List of Talks given in 2001-02
| Thursday, September 6 | Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University Shuffling cards and random walks on finite groups |
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| Thursday, September 13 | Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell University A geometric proof of the 4 squares theorem |
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| Thursday, September 20 | Richard Durrett, Cornell University Evolution on random landscapes |
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| Thursday, September 27 | Russell Miller, Cornell University Noncomputable sets and unsolvable problems |
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| Thursday, October 4 | Edward Swartz, Cornell University Introduction to matroids |
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| Thursday, October 11 | Konstantin Rybnikov, Cornell University Perfect lattices and perfect ellipsoids |
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| Thursday, October 18 | John Guckenheimer, Cornell University The forced van der Pol equation |
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| Thursday, October 25 | Robert Strichartz, Cornell University Scales that specify the smoothness of functions |
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| Thursday, November 1 | Clifford Earle, Cornell University How to build a Riemann surface |
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| Thursday, November 8 | James Conant, Cornell University Euler's formula and regular polyhedra |
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| Thursday, November 15 | José F. Escobar, Cornell University Introduction to the calculus of variations |
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| Thursday, November 29 | Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University Bifurcations and systems with different time scales |
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| Thursday, December 6 | Michael Stillman, Cornell University Computing in algebraic geometry |