Fall 2011

Schedule of Talks

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

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September 15

Martin Strauss
University of Michigan

How to Multiply

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September 22

Jeff Lagarias
University of Michigan

Hilbert’s Space-Filling Curve

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September 29

Michael Zieve
University of Michigan

Square Values of Polynomials

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October 6

Stephen DeBacker
University of Michigan

The Frobenius Coin Problem

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October 13

Andreas Blass
University of Michigan

Information and Entropy

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October 20

Ralf Spatzier
University of Michigan

Finding Periodic Orbits

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October 27

Alexander Barvinok
University of Michigan

Cutting Tetrahedra with Scissors

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November 3

Scott Schneider
University of Michigan

Slaying the Hydra

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November 10

Alexander Hahn
Notre Dame

Mathematics and the Sydney Opera

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November 17

Kyle Hoffman
NSA

Finite Fields and Reed-Solomon Codes

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November 24

No Meeting

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December 1

Sergey Fomin
University of Michigan

Counting the Ways

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December 8

E. Hunter Brooks
University of Michigan

Finding Zeros of Functions by Iteration

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