Winter 2009

Schedule of Talks

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

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January 15

Austin Shapiro
University of Michigan

The Tree of Numbers

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January 22

Juan Souto
University of Michigan

Circle Packings and the Combinatorial Riemann Mapping Theorem

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January 29

Marty Weissman
University of California at Santa Cruz

A well-rounded discussion of spheres

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February 5

Kyle Ormsby
University of Michigan

The Geometry of the Hopf Fibration

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February 12

Zachary Maddock
Columbia

Plane Ol’ Birational Geometry

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February 19

Susan Murray
University of Michigan – Biostatistics

Mathematics for a Lifetime: Survival Analysis

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February 26

No Meeting

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March 5

Valentina Joukhovitski
University of Michigan

Topology of links and knots (or, how I learned to enjoy math)

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March 12

Kevin Wilson
Princeton

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March 19

Brian Conrad
Stanford

Can a random Rubik’s Cube be solved?

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March 26

Michael A. Jones
Mathematical Reviews

A Voting Theory Approach to Golf Scoring

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April 2

David Montague
University of Michigan

The Geometry of the Hausorff Metric

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April 9

Zachary Scherr
University of Michigan

Pick’s Theorem, Farey Sequences, and the Geometry of Numbers

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April 16

Bryden Cais
McGill

How to compute 45 million digits of π

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