Talks During the 2002-2003 School Year

Fall 2002

September 6: Deborah Kent "An introduction to the life and works of Benjamin Peirce"
September 13: Rachel Weir "Inner-outer factorizations on Hardy and Bergman spaces"
September 20: Chirashree Bhattacharya "Relation modules"
September 27: Brian Street "Ergodic theory, group actions and infinite measure"
October 11: Brian Kapp "A generalized pigeon-hole principle:  a brief introduction to Ramsey theory"
October 18: Jennifer Moorhouse "Compact difference and component structure of composition operators"
October 25: Rusty Herrin "An introduction to reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces"
November 1: Rich Felker "Linear maps, regularity conditions, and nonstandard analysis on the real line and the circle"
November 8: Randall Helmstutler "Equivalence of functor categories via idempotents"
November 15: Leslie Hatfield "Words of weight 45 in dual codes of projective planes of order 25"
November 22:
William Kranec "The properties of L-functions associated with Maass forms"

Spring 2003

January 24: Alejandro Jimenez-Maza "Understanding Hamiltonian systems under a strong constraining force"
January 31: Almut Burchard "Clustering of membrane proteins"
February 7: Rich Felker "The mathematics of audio/video signal processing"
February 14: Gianluca Guadagni "What is a quantum field theory?"
February 21: Ryan Higginbottom "The transfer map in group cohomology"
March 14: Wes Cramer "Solving polynomials of high degree"
March 21: Christopher Hammond "The mathematical vision of Lemuel Gulliver"
March 28: Brent Cody "Transfinite induction with applications"
April 4: Daniel Toundykov "P.D.E. 101"
April 18: Mike Dean "Fibonacci sequence modulo n"
April 25: Adrian Rice "Alice in Numberland: mathematics in the writings of Lewis Carroll"