Talks During the 2001-2002 School Year

Fall 2001

September 7: Jennifer Roche "Radices and Jordan ideals in four definitions"
September 21: Wesley Cramer "Sociable numbers"
September 28: Christopher Hammond "Compactness of the inclusion map between Bergman spaces"
October 5: Brian Street "Analysis on fractals"
October 19: Leanne Leer "Are curves set-theoretic complete intersections?"
October 26: Ryan Higginbottom "Spheres, Lefschetz theory, and Lie groups"
November 2: Deborah Kent "A short look at a long line"
November 9: Stephen Theriault "Orthogonal decompositions, direct limits, and telescopes"
November 16: James Bowling "Rings of fractions and quadratic Jordan algebras"
November 30: Melissa Meehan "Normal subgroups of SL(n, A)"
December 7: Esther Garcia "A connection between Jordan systems and Lie algebras: the TKK construction"

Spring 2002

January 25: Kelle Clark "Perfect authentication schemes constructed from geometric structures"
February 1: Jennifer Moorhouse "Differences of composition operators"
February 8: Rich Felker "Pathologies in measure theory"
February 15: Holly Carley "A pair of analytic function spaces"
February 22: Jonah Swann "The Poincaré disk"
March 1: Sloan Despeaux "Turning the pages: nineteenth century mathematics in Britain"
March 22: Su Suwanna "Palindromes and finite continued fractions"
March 29: Lijian Jiang "Composition operators on weighted bounded analytic function spaces and A(\phi) spaces"
April 5: Christopher Jones "Solving the Enigma"
April 12: Carl Toews "Homotopies of composition operators acting on H^\infty (B_n)"
April 19: Pamela Richardson "An introduction to cwatsets"
April 26: Igor Erovenko "The bounded generation property"

Summer 2002

July 24: Christopher Hammond "Finding the norm of an operator on a Hilbert space"
August 7: Randall Helmstutler "A naive introduction to algebraic topology"