Winter 2008

Schedule of Talks

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

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January 10

Brian Conrad
University of Michigan

Fermat’s Last Theorem and elliptic curves

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January 17

Juan Souto
University of Michigan

The Poincare conjecture and the classification of manifolds

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January 24

Loren Spice
University of Michigan

Can you tell me the way to sum to A?

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January 31

Djordje Milicevic
University of Michigan

Trancendental Numbers

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February 7

Kyle Petersen
University of Michigan

Conway’s napkin problem

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February 14

Amanda Knecht
University of Michigan

Partitions of integers

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February 21

Ben Schmidt
University of Michigan

Blocking Light

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February 28

No Meeting

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March 6

Jeff Lagarias
University of Michigan

Apollonian circle packings

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March 13

Paul Siegel
University of Michigan

Birkhoff’s Ergodic Theorem

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March 20

David Witte Morris
University of Michigan

Hamiltonian checkerboards

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March 27

Dave Anderson
University of Michigan

Hypercomplex numbers

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April 3

Stephen DeBacker
University of Michigan

The seven color theorem

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April 10

Anna Siano
University of Michigan

Solving differential equations via symmetry groups

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