Winter 2018

Schedule of Talks

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

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January 11

David Speyer
University of Michigan

Seeing the unsolvability of the quintic

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January 18

Takumi Murayama
University of Michigan

Knot theory and the Jacobian conjecture

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January 25

Bobbie Wu
University of Michigan

A Simplest High-order Numerical Method

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February 1

Felix Janda
University of Michigan

Fulton-MacPherson’s Compactification

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February 8

Benjamin Krakoff
University of Michigan

The Matrix-Tree Theorem

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February 15

Trevor Hyde
University of Michigan

Down the rabbit hole: an introduction to p-adic numbers

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February 22

Jonathan Gerhard
University of Michigan

Pattern Avoidance and Combinatorial Statistics for Set Partitions and RGF

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March 3

No Meeting

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March 8

Phil Tosteson
University of Michigan

Cutting and Pasting: Rethinking Size

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March 15

Carsten Peterson
University of Michigan

Cohn’s Irreducibility Criterion

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March 22

Alex Kapiamba
University of Michigan

Chaos and the Logistic Map

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March 23

Drew Armstrong
University of Miami

Where is the cone?

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March 29

David Fernandez-Breton
University of Michigan

What does infinitely many mean?

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April 5

Rachel Webb
University of Michigan

Moduli Spaces: study the forest, not the trees

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