Talks During the 2003-2004 School Year

Fall 2003

September 5: Deborah Kent "What I Did on My Summer Vacation"
September 12:
Mike Smith "All I know about math anxiety I learned from rafting down the Kennebec River while listening to the Indigo Girls"
September 26:
Achilleas Pitsillides "p-adic valuations"
October 3:
Amjad Tuffaha "From Levitzki to Turovskii: Triangularizability of semigroups of compact quasinilpotent operators"
October 17:
David Taylor "An introduction to partitions"
October 24: Ismar Volic "Introduction to Vassiliev knot invariants"
October 31: Cavit Hafizoglu "Stochastic Soup"
November 7: Bill Ross (University of Richmond) "The Dirichlet problem with polynomial and rational data"
November 14: Brian Kapp "An extension of Cramer's Rule--Determinants without fields"
November 21: Pam Richardson "Super special Jordan super algebras"

Spring 2004

January 16: Andrew Francis "Bases of centres of hecke algebras"
January 23: Rich Felker "The optimal transport problem and isoperimetric inequality"
January 30: Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace "Geometry in group theory after Jacques Tits"
February 13: Wes Cramer "Recreational math with Wes"
February 20: Rebecca Schmitz "A topic in complex analysis"
February 27: Aaron Phillips "Crystals and representation theory"
March 19: Rachel Weir "Complex numbers in the real world"
March 26: Bill Kranec "Mathematical origami"
April 2: Gianluca Guadagni "Gaussian free fields"
April 9: Achilleas Pitsillides "Continued fractions and linear diophantine equations"
April 16: Daniel Toundykov "Counting primes, playing with pies, and enumerating the rationals"
April 23: Melissa Meehan "Intuition in mathematics"