Fall 2008

Schedule of Talks

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


September 11

Stephen DeBacker
University of Michigan

Fermat’s Christmas Theorem


September 18

Djordje Milicevic
University of Michigan

The smallest uncountable ordinal and other tales


September 25

Karl Schwede
University of Michigan

Bezout’s Theorem


October 2

Asen Dontchev
University of Michigan

The Implicit Function Theorem


October 9

Amanda Knecht
University of Michigan

The Mathematics of Sudoku


October 16

Katharine Walker
University of Michigan

Brouwer’s Fixed-Point Theorem


October 23

Jack Waddell
University of Michigan

Sit, Stand, and Spin: Unusual waves in curious media


October 30

Dan Hermes
University of Michigan

Life of Pi: Continued Fractions and Infinite Series


November 6

Anna Siano
University of Michigan

Sir Roger Penrose and the Frying Pan


November 13

Benjamin Weiss
University of Michigan

Random Walks


November 20

Crystal Zeager
University of Chicago

The Most Famous Pictures in Math


November 27

No Meeting


December 4

Divakar Viswanath
University of Michigan

The Leibniz Series and Nonlinear Sequence Transformations


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