Fall 2005

Schedule of Talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).


September 15

Kannan Soundararajan
University of Michigan

Sums of Squares


September 22

Kannan Soundararajan
University of Michigan

The Fifteen Theorem


September 29

Brian Conrad
University of Michigan

Cross-ratio and conics


October 6

Juha Heinonen
University of Michigan

What are topological manifolds made of?


October 13

Stephen DeBacker
University of Michigan

Hex and the Brouwer fixed-point theorem


October 20

Harm Derksen
University of Michigan

Archimedean solids


October 27

David Promislow
University of Michigan

A stopping problem


November 3

Dan Burns
University of Michigan

The occasionally dishonest casino


November 10

Sam Payne
University of Michigan

Tropical geometry


November 17

Patrick Nelson
University of Michigan

Can Mathematics Cure AIDS?


November 24

No Meeting


December 1

Matt DeLong
University of Michigan

Elliptic curves, taxis, and Internet security


December 8

Joel Smoller
University of Michigan

Gravitation and Cosmology


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