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Speakers and titles in reverse Chronological order:
(Note: for talks in fall 2004 and later, click on a title to go to the site listing all abstracts)Spring 2009:
- Philip Matchett Wood: Stacks of Blocks and a Variety of Stacking Schemes
- Various grad students: Job search panel
- Eric Rowland: Formulas for primes
- Robert McRae: Finite Dimensional Division Algebras
- Brent Young: Quantum Mechanical Stability of Matter (or How Boring Analytic Inequalities Make Life, the Universe, and Everything Possible)
- Beth Kupin: The Four Color Theorem
- Leigh Cobbs: Hey! Who turned out the lights?
- Tianling Jin: A glimpse of minimal surfaces: Bernstein's Theorem
- Jinwei Yang: Introduction to the abc Conjecture
- Dan Staley: All About Thompson's Group F
- Bobby DeMarco: The Putnam Exam
- Kellen Myers: Ramsey Theory on the Integers
- Ved Datar: A proof of the change of variables theorem in R^n
Fall 2008:
- Dan Cranston: The Probabilistic Method: How to make counting easy (sometimes)
- Knight Fu: A Lesson in Probabilistic Combinatorial Pharmacy: Percolation on Homogeneous Trees of Valence 3 (or more)
- Brian Thompson: All the Math I Really Need for Research I Learned in Kindergarten or Coloring in the Lines: Cool Edge Colorings of Hypercubes
- Brandon Bate: The First Arcsine Law of a Random Walk
- Vidit Nanda: Buffon's Needle Problem
- Scott Schneider: Slaying the Hydra
- Thom Tyrrell: The Enigma Machine
- Gabe Bouch: Fun With Classical Mechanics
- Susan Durst: The Alexander Polynomial
- David Duncan: Loewner's Differential Equation and SLE
- Andrew Baxter: Sperner's Lemma and Fair Division
Spring 2008:
- Philip Matchett Wood: The Mathematics of the Rubik's Cube
- Eduardo Osorio: Untitled
- Liviu Ilinca: The k-SAT problem
- Vijay Ravikumar: A History of Curves in Mathematics
- Dan Cranston: The search for Moore Graphs: Beauty is Rare
- Emilie Hogan: The Game of Hex and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem
- Beth Kupin: Matroids
- Humberto Montalván Gámez: Can high-school mathematics be challenging and fun?
- Eric Rowland: The Crazy Thue-Morse Sequence
- Dan Staley: The Banach-Tarski Paradox and Group Amenability
- Catherine Pfaff: An introduction to Outer Space
- Lara Pudwell: Counting trees
Fall 2007:
- Justin Bush: Choosing the pizza seminar winner
- Sushmita Venugopalan: A look at Morse Functions
- Wesley Pegden: A shrinking operation on sets
- Jinwei Yang: Generators for ring of invariants
- Liming Wang: Singularly perturbed monotone systems and applications in biology
- Sara Blight: The Prime Number Theorem
- Avital Oliver: The history of imaginary numbers -- a typical example of mathematical evolution
- Jay Williams: Magic caves, secrets, and zero-knowledge proofs
- James Dibble: A Survey of Riemann Surfaces
- Andrew Baxter: What I Learned in Math 103
Spring 2007:
- Liviu Ilinca: The Strange Logic of Infinite Random Graphs
- John Bryk: In Which John Bryk Proves Something Neat about Transcendental Numbers
- Dan Staley: A History of the Poincare Conjecture
- Kevin Costello: Random facts about Random Graphs
- Andrew Baxter: Partition Bijections
- Elizabeth Kupin: Classical Cryptography
- James Dibble: A Brief Introduction to Geometric Control Theory
- Tom Robinson: A Heuristic Introduction to Infinitesimal Operators.
- Charlie Siegel: Polynomial Knots
- Catherine Pfaff: Pencil Maps, Surface Classification, and a Cute Book
- Humberto Montalvan: Quantum Computation, a Glimpse
- Reza Rezazagedan: Heat Flow
- Po-Shen Loh (Princeton): Arranging in order
Fall 2006:
- Catherine Pfaff: A Large-Scale Geometric Proof of Mostow's Rigidity Theorem
- Aek Thanatipanonda: On Playing Games
- Jason Chiu: Probabilistic Bridge
- Paul Raff: The Power of Polynomials
- John Bryk: Some Sort of Introduction to L-functions
- Colleen Duffy: Yupana? Quipu? - Incan Abacus and a Portable Planner
- Eric Rowland: An Introduction to Smellular Glautomata
- Sara Blight: Proofs Without Words
- Dan Staley: Perfection
- Philip Matchett Wood: Origami: Elegant Mathematics and an Amazing Application
- Sam Coskey: Ratner's Theorem
- Lara Pudwell: How to Count Permutations Cleverly
- Andrew Baxter: Euler, The Master of Us All
Spring 2006:
- Bobby Griffin: The Pancake Problem -- Sorting by Prefix Reversals
- Philip Matchett Wood: The Lucy & Lily Pentagon Game
- John Byrk: Regular Polygons in the Integer Lattice = Squares
- Pablo Angulo: An Introduction to Optimal Control Theory and Differential Games
- Jason Chiu: Seven
- Liviu Ilinca: Some Counterexamples in Probability
- Daniel Staley: Categories, Sets, and the Axiom of Universes.
- Eduardo Osorio: Stochastic Approach to Deterministic Boundary Value Problems.
- Mike Richter: On Crossing Families.
- Prof R. Wilson & Prof G. Weibel: Two Faculty Glimpses.
- Prof R. Falk & Prof G. Cherlin: Two Faculty Glimpses.
- Mike Richter: Geometrically Markov Geodesics on the Modular Surface
- Thotsaporn "Aek" Thanatipanonda: Ramsey Theory
Fall 2005:
- Sikimeti Mau: Morse Theory
- Sarah Genoway: Tropical Math
- Vince Vatter: Maximal independent sets in graphs
- Sujith Vijay: The Crazy Proof of the Irrationality of Zeta(3)
- Wes Pegden: Distance Sequences in Locally Infinite Vertex-Transitive Digraphs
- Siwei Zhu: The factorization of very large integers
- Eric Rowland: Math 135 for a Discrete World
- Lara Pudwell: All about 1089
- Andrew Baxter: Triangular Billiards
- Brian Lins: The History of Logarithms and Slide Rules
- Catherine Pfaff: "Large Scale Geometry", Amenability, and Some Connections to Algebra and Analysis
- Ben Kennedy: When do interval maps have simple dynamics?
- Paul Ellis: There are infinitely many primes
Spring 2005:
- Chris Stucchio: How to make an imaginary Box act like it isn't there
- Eric Rowland: Pascal's Triangle mod n: Fractal Dimensions, Fractal Sequences, and Other Exotic Cuisine
- Brian Manning: Bundles of Joy
- Paul Raff: More Fooling Around With Isabelle
- Phil Matchett: Meet Isabelle, Computerized theorem proving for today and the future.
- German Enciso: Infinite Dimensional Beer Glasses
- Sujith Vijay: Primes, Twin Primes and Processors
- Luc Nguyen: Best approximation on a complex domain
- John Bryk: Digital Love; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ergodic Theory
- Leigh Cobbs: On Zero-Divisor Graphs
- Sikimeti Mau: The McKay Correspondence
- Ben Kennedy: Measures of Noncompactness and Fixed Points
- Eduardo Osorio: Some Dirichlet problems over some quadratic surfaces
- Jared Speck: Special Relativity and Minkowskian Spacetime: My Stick Isn't As Short As It Looks
Fall 2004:
- Kia Dalili: The HomAB problem
- Paul Raff: Primes is in P
- Ben Bunting: Pseudospectra, Hypercube Random Walks, and Why 6 Shuffles is not Enough
- Elizabeth Henning: Why Hom is a Mother Functor
- Scott Schneider: A Taste of Descriptive Set Theory
- Nick Weininger: A New Combinatorial-Probabilistic Gem
- Mohamud Mohammed: The (q-)MARKOV-WZ-Method
- Derek Hansen: Surface Registration by Matching Umbilic Points
- Mike Neiman: Crossing Numbers and Discrete Geometry
- Sam Coskey: Playing the Greatest Game in the Continuum
- Catherine Pfaff: Complex Algebraic Curves: Applications of Hurwitz's Formula
- Aaron Lauve: Schur Polynomials
- Eric Rowland: All About Primitive Pythagorean Triples
Spring 2004:
- Matt Young: Elliptic Curves
- John Bryk: Extreme Valuation Theory
- Ben Kennedy: The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem Never Holds in Infinite Dimensions
- Scott Schneider: Connections Between the Provability Predicate in Peano Arithmetic and the Necessity Operator in Modal Logic
- Lara Pudwell: Pebbling, Cover Pebbling, and Chocolate
- Chris Stucchio: Shooting Lasers at Atoms
- Ben Bunting: Why Google is the best search engine
- Paul Ellis: The Axiom of Choice
- Sikimeti Ma'u: Remembering Mr. Green
- Sujith Vijay: Lagrange and Four Square
- Space Ghost: Inverse Problems for Electrical Conductivity Networks
- Eva Curry: Radix Representations for Vectors in Z^n
Fall 2003
- Matt Young: Bessel Functions
- Paul Ellis: Knot Theory Invariants
- Fernando Louro: Algebraic Geometry
- Eric Rowland: On Equivalent Words in the Free Group of Rank 2
- Aaron Lauve: Horned Hermitian Honeybees and their Quasi Friends
- Trevor Bass: A Quick and Painful Introduction to Excluded Minor Theory
- Michael Weingart: Gaussian Quadrature
- German Enciso: Control Theory, Monotonicity and Fruit Flies
- Kia Dalili: Probabilistic methods in Combinatorics
- Bill Cuckler: Discrepancy in Arithmetic Progressions
- Brian Lins: The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra with Linear Algebra