Fall 2009

Schedule of Talks

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


September 17

Jeffrey Lagarias
University of Michigan

The Pancake Flipping Problem


September 24

Michael Khoury
University of Michigan

Integral Apollonian Packings


October 1

Chelsea Walton
University of Michigan

Noncommutative Algebra?!


October 8

Joe Marker
University of Michigan

Property-Casualty Insurance: Predicting Misfortunes


October 15

Hyman Bass
University of Michigan

Pieces of Cake

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October 22

Anna Gilbert
University of Michigan

The Netflix Prize: The Power of the Crowd


October 29

Julian Rosen
University of Michigan

Generating Functions


November 5

Igor Kriz
University of Michigan

“Simple” Puzzles


November 12

Alexandra Pettet
University of Michigan

A Mathematician in the Alhambra


November 19

Emily Witt
University of Michigan

The Mathematics of Clock Making


November 26

No Meeting


December 3

Zachary Scherr
University of Chicago

Redefining “Proof”


December 10

Karen Smith
University of Michigan

Calculus (mod p)


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