Winter 2015

Schedule of Talks

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


January 8

Martin Strauss
University of Michigan

Calculus — no limits!


January 15

Charlotte Chan
University of Michigan

The Game of SET


January 22

Robert Walker
University of Michigan

A Visual Invitation to Algebraic Geometry


January 29

Ian Shipman
University of Michigan

Continued Fractions


February 5

Scott Rich
University of Michigan

The Mathematics of the Brain: An Introduction to Computational Neuroscience


February 12

Alexander Leaf
University of Michigan

The Graph Minor Theorem


February 19

Steven Damelin
University of Michigan

Let’s count linearly independent vectors!


February 26

Cameron Franc
University of Michigan

The Skolem-Mahler-Lech Theorem


March 6

No Meeting


March 12

Stephen DeBacker
University of Michigan

The Seven Color Theorem


March 19

Ilya Volkovich
University of Michigan

On Polynomial Identity Testing and Some Applications


March 26

Martin Strauss
University of Michigan

Rational Tangles


April 2

Gabe Frieden
University of Michigan

What’s so great about generating functions?


April 9

Greg Muller
University of Michigan

Electricity, magnetism and differential geometry


April 16

Daniel Edmund Harriss
University of Michigan

Great Balls of Paper


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