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.