UM Undergraduate Math Club
Fall 2005

Unless otherwise indicated, the Math Club meets from 4:10 until 5 (pm) on Thursdays in the 2nd floor Nesbitt Common Room. As always, Pizza and Pop are free.

Schedule of Talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

September 15, 4:10-5 pm
Kannan Soundararajan
Sums of squares
September 22, 4:10-5 pm
Kannan Soundararajan
The fifteen theorem
September 29, 4:10-5 pm
Brian Conrad
Cross-ratio and conics
October 6, 4:10-5 pm
Juha Heinonen
What are topological manifolds made of?
October 13, 4:10-5 pm
Stephen DeBacker
Hexed by math: the Brouwer fixed-point theorem
October 20, 4:10-5 pm
Harm Derksen
Archimedean solids
October 27, 4:10-5 pm
David Promislow
A stopping problem
November 3, 4:10-5 pm
Dan Burns
The occasionally dishonest casino
November 10, 4:10-5 pm
Sam Payne
Tropical geometry
November 17, 4:10-5 pm
Patrick Nelson
Can mathematics cure AIDS?
November 24, 4:10-5 pm
No meeting
Thanksgiving
December 1, 4:10-5 pm
Matt DeLong
Elliptic curves: from taxis to Internet security
December 8, 4:10-5 pm
Joel Smoller
Gravitation and Cosmology



Winter 2005 Schedule


Current Schedule


Winter 2006 Schedule


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