Talks During the 2004-2005 School Year

Fall 2004

September 24:Deborah Kent "Benjamin Peirce and the Question of American Scientific Identity"
October 8:Cavit Hafizoglu "Dynamics of neural networks: A stochastic approach"
October 15:Rich Felker "Elections are not fair: Arrow's impossibility theorem"
October 22:Ismar Volic "(Co)fibrations in topology"
October 29:Dominic Braun "Words, Words, Words: On Metrics, Galleries, and the Weyl Distance"
November 5:Robert Allen "Embedding of trees in the hyperbolic disk"
November 12:Dave Taylor "Partitions, correlations functions, and Fock spaces"
November 19:Daniel Toundykov "Stability of solutions to differential equations: spectral issues in infinite dimensions"
December 3:Brian Kapp "A characterization of a class of primitive Pythagorean triples"

Spring 2005

January 28:Katy Ott "Boundedness criteria for singular integral operators"
February 4:Mike Smith "Drowning Swimmers, Lifeguards, Potato Sacks, Wheelbarrows, and Related Rates"
February 11:Kai-Uwe Bux "Ouch, my ruler is too short: How to connect dots that are far apart and other geometrical musings"
February 18:Matthew Pons "Automorphic composition operators on the Hardy and Bergman spaces in the ball"
February 25:Sarah Bendall "Centers of n-fold tensor products of graphs
March 18:Achilleas Pitsillides
March 25:Jason Castiglione "That's how I like my odd primes: One of Gauss's Proofs of Quadratic Reciprocity"
April 1:James Hughes "A Quick Introduction to Wavelets and an Application to Image Processing"
April 15:Amjad Tuffaha "Proofs by Counting and Probability: Local Lemma and Fruit Salad"