Dartmouth Math Colloquia for Winter Term, 2005
Seminars are (usually) on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in L02 Carson Hall.
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Thursday Jan 13 |
David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin -- Madison Rigorous Results for Digital Snowflake Growth |
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3:00 pm Friday Jan 14 |
Craig A. Tracy, U.C. Davis The Airy and Pearcey Processes |
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5:00 pm Friday Jan 14 |
Anthony Baerlocher, Director of Game Design, IGT The Art of the Math Behind Slot Machines |
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Thursday Jan 20 |
Mauricio Gutierrez,
Tufts University
Recent Developments in Group Theory |
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Thursday Jan 27 |
Frank Morgan, Williams College Double Bubbles in $R^n$ and Other Spaces |
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Thursday Feb 3 |
Amit Khetan,
University of Massachusetts Implicitization of surfaces in $P^3$ using toric varieties |
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4:10 pm Wednesday Feb 9 |
Alex Barnett,
New York University High-frequency cavity modes: efficient computation and applications |
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2:30 pm Thursday Feb 10 |
Noam Greenberg,
University of Notre Dame There is a difference between true finiteness and impostors |
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Thursday Feb 10 |
Elizabeth Allman,
University of Southern Maine Modeling Molecular Evolution: Markov models of DNA mutation on trees |
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11:00 am Friday Feb 11 |
John Rhodes,
Bates College Matrix Rank, Tensor Rank, and the Algebraic Statistics of Molecular Evolution |
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2:00 pm Friday Feb 11 |
Craig Sutton,
University of Pennsylvania Applications of Riemannian Submersions to Spectral Geometry and Manifolds of Positive Sectional Curvature |
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Friday Feb 11 |
William Stein,
Harvard University Computational verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for specific elliptic curves |
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2:00 pm Monday Feb 14 |
Selim Esedoglu,
University of California at Los Angeles Threshold dynamics for the piecewise constant Mumford--Shah functional of image segmentation |
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4:10 pm Monday Feb 14 |
Joseph Miller,
Indiana University Kolmogorov complexity and Martin-Lof randomness |
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Thursday Feb 17 |
Ann Lee,
Yale University Geometric tools for high-dimensional data analysis |
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4:10 pm Friday Feb 18 |
Jared Anderson,
Institute for Advanced Study Mirkovic--Vilonen polytopes and cluster algebras |
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4:10 pm Friday Feb 18 |
Rebecca Weber,
Pennsylvania State University Sets, ideals, and $\Pi^0_1$ classes |
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4:10 pm Tuesday Feb 22 |
Mariel Vazquez,
University of California at Berkeley Topological analysis of enzymatic actions: site-specific recombinases and topoisomerases |
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Thursday Feb 24 |
Siegfried Echterhoff,
University of Muenster (Germany) Non-commutative topology and the Connes-Kasparov conjecture |
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Thursday Mar 3 |
Jozef Przytycki,
George Washington University
Open problems in Knot Theory which everyone can try to solve |
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Thursday Mar 10 |
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Thursday May 29 |
