Winter 2005

Schedule of Talks

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


January 13

Dick Canary
University of Michigan

Hyperbolic sports (and the geometry of 3-dimensional spaces)


January 20

Fernando Delgado
University of Michigan

Counting Catalan Numbers


January 27

Movie Night
University of Michigan

Movies from The Geometry Center


February 3

Jeffrey Lagarias
University of Michigan

The EKG Sequence


February 10

Jinho Baik
University of Michigan

The Longest Increasing Subsequence in a Random Permutation


February 17

Ralf Spatzier
University of Michigan

Going Round in Circles


February 24

Amy Cohn, Marina Epelman, Stephen Pollock, and Dushyant Sharma
University of Michigan (Department of IOE)

Operations Research: an “optimal” career choice for Mathematicians?


March 3

No Meeting


March 10

Richard Schwartz
University of Maryland

Irrational Triangular Billiards


March 17

Bogdan Ion
University of Michigan

Symmetry patterns in the plane


March 24

Harm Derksen
University of Michigan

Multimagic Squares


March 31

Nathan Reading
University of Michigan

Regular Polytopes and Tessellations


April 7

Ila Fiete
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

How Neurons Compute Integrals to Control the Eyes


April 14

No Meeting


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