Winter 2007

Schedule of Talks

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

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January 11

Tim McQuade
University of Michigan

Schelling’s Segregation Model

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January 18

Marty Weissman
University of California at Santa Cruz

Describing Real Numbers

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January 25

Tamar Ziegler
University of Michigan

The Arithmetic Geometric Mean (AGM)

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February 1

David Lehavi
University of Michigan

Elliptic curves and Poncelet’s Theorem

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February 8

Nick Ramsey
University of Michigan

What is the probability that two randomly chosen integers are relatively prime?

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February 15

Renzo Cavalieri
University of Michigan

Counting “things” with “spaces of spaces”

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February 22

Ellen Veomett
University of Michigan

Scissors Congruence

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March 1

No Meeting

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March 8

Brian Jennings
University of Michigan

Noether’s Theorem

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March 15

Danny Forger
University of Michigan

Optimal Oscillations

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March 22

Alexei Kolesnikov
University of Michigan

Eigenvalues – Will Australians Live or Die?

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March 30

Fernando Delgado
University of Michigan

The Mathematics behind Google’s PageRank

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April 5

Susan Sierra
University of Michigan

Return of the Quaternions

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April 12

Gavin LaRose
University of Michigan

The Case of the Dead Water-skier and a Wake

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