Talks During the 1999-2000 School Year

Fall 1999

September 10: David Andescavage "A crash course in knot theory"
September 17: Almut Burchard "Rearrangements: How to improve shape without changing size"
September 24: Todd Williams "Managing your portfolio with barycentric coordinates"
October 1: Stephen Theriault "The music of the spheres"
October 8: Chris Boner "Decoding the binary Reed-Muller codes"
October 22: Alex Richman "Composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces"
October 29: Lucy Lifschitz "Super-rigidity in nilpotent Lie algebras"
November 5: Christopher Hammond "Dante's mathematical universe"
November 12: Jon Handy and Drew Dunn "Two R.E.U. projects in statistical mechanics"
November 19: Andrew Francis "What are Hecke algebras and why we love them"
December 3: Karl Haller "Quantum computing"

Spring 2000

January 28: Holly Carley "An introduction to copulas and Sklar's theorem"
February 4: Sloan Despeaux "International contributions to nineteenth century British mathematical journals"
February 11: John Cagnol "An introduction to shape optimization in hyperbolic PDE's"
February 18: Randall Helmstutler "Representable functors and the Yoneda lemma"
February 25: Christian Hellings "Coefficients of univalent functions"
March 3: Christopher Hammond "Fibonacci's Book of Squares"
March 24: Alejandro Jimenez "On Newton's problem of minimal resistance"
March 31: Luc Rey-Bellet "Brownian motion, large deviations, and control theory"
April 7: Carl Toews "A short calculation (made even shorter)"
April 14: Karen Saxe "Fun with spectral theory"
April 21: Gianluca Guadagni "The renormalization group"
April 28: Adrian Rice "The story of the four-color theorem"