Winter 2014

Schedule of Talks

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


January 16

David Bruce
University of Michigan

Resolving Singularities


January 23

Andrew Snowden
University of Michigan

Arithmetic of curves


January 30

Joseph Marker
University of Michigan

Placing a Price Tag on Risk


February 6

Greg Muller
University of Michigan

How to make money gambling!


February 13

Angelica Benito
University of Michigan

How (un)fair are elections?


February 20

Paul Reschke
University of Michigan

The Complexity of Complex Stuctures


February 27

Jeff Lagarias
University of Michigan

Self-Distributivity


March 6

No Meeting


March 13

David Speyer
University of Michigan

Approximating π for approximate π day


March 20

Francis Chung
University of Michigan

The Kakeya Needle Problem


March 27

Patricia Klein
University of Michigan

Zorn’s Lemma


April 3

Gabe Frieden
University of Michigan

The Four Color Theorem


April 10

Sergey Nadtochiy
University of Michigan

Choosing under uncertainty


April 17

Daniel Barter
University of Michigan

Conway’s Game of Life


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