LIST OF TALKS, SPRING '02

   [on the missing days - January 24, February 7,14 -
    Professors Carrington and Komlós discussed various topics]


November 29
   Prof. Enriqueta Carrington: Symmetry in low dimensions.

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January 31
   Prof. József Beck: Tic-Tac-Toe games.

February 21
   Prof. János Komlós: Ramsey theory (pdf).

February 28
   Prof. Simon Thomas: Killing the hydra. 

March 7
   Mihir Bhanot and Colin Campbell (Geometry group): Taxicab geometry.
   Prof. Roe Goodman: The wonders of symmetry.

March 14
   Algebra Problemsolving Day.

March 28
   Greg Byrd (Algebra group): The basics of Linear Algebra.
   Prof. Amelia Taylor: A problem from the game SET™
   that is combinatorial, geometric and algebraic.

April 4
   Ismail El Alaoui and Sophia Lim (Algebra group): Group theory.
   Graduate student Aaron Lauve: Fun with polynomials.

April 11
   Ismail El Alaoui and Sophia Lim (Algebra group): Rings and fields.
   Cindy Nezames and Mike Shelley (Geometry group): Non-Euclidean Geometry.

April 18
   Hazim Nada (Number theory group): The Pigeonhole Principle
   and its relation to the Dirichlet Approximation Theorem.

April 25
   Heather Lee and Chris Ross (Set theory group): The Axiom of Choice.
   Graduate student Michael Weingart: The algebra of polynomials.

May 2
   Prof. Steve Greenfield: Sharing secrets.