Winter 2012

Schedule of Talks

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


January 12

Mattias Jonsson
University of Michigan

Logistical Chaos


January 19

Alex Mueller
University of Michigan

Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem


January 26

Paul Siegel
Penn State University

The DNA Inequality


February 2

Daniel Forger
University of Michigan

A Model for Happiness


February 9

Daniel Erman
University of Michigan

The Sylvester-Gallai Theorem


February 16

Thomas Lam
University of Michigan

Tiling Regions with Dominoes


February 23

Cynthia Vinzant
University of Michigan

Solving Cubics with Paper and Turtles


March 1

No Meeting


March 8

Alejandro Uribe
University of Michigan

Rays, Waves, and Caustics


March 15

Jinho Baik
University of Michigan

Eigenvalues of Random Symmetric Matrices


March 22

Anna Gilbert
University of Michigan

Sudoku: Can you solve it?


March 29

Brian McCartin
University of Michigan

Mysteries of the Equilateral Triangle


April 5

Ari Shnidman
University of Michigan

Counting Points On Elliptic Curves


April 12

Chris Lyons
University of Michigan

Back to Our Primitive Roots


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