October 1 | Professor Brian Conrad | Fermat's Last Theorem and Elliptic Curves |
October 8 | Professor Ravi Vakil | The Mathematics of Doodling |
October 15 | Professor Mehran Sahami (CS) | Harnessing the World Wide Web to Measure Textual Similarity |
October 29 | Jonathan Wise | Finding the Roots of Polynomials |
November 5 | Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo | Combinatorial Games |
November 12 | Professor Akshay Venkatesh | What is a Class Number Formula? |
November 19 | Sam Payne | Bidding Games |
December 3 | Professor Benedict Gross (Harvard) | Extending n! |
January 14 | Professor Brian Conrad | Can a random Rubik's cube be solved? |
January 21 | Professor Persi Diaconis | Loves me, loves me not |
January 28 | Professor Rafe Mazzeo | Spectral Geometry |
February 4 | Renzo Cavalieri (MSRI, Berkeley) | Where parallel lines meet |
February 11 | Professor Denis Trotabas | Equidistribution of arithmetic points on the unit sphere |
February 18 | Professor Robert Finn | Capillary Surfaces |
Febrary 25 | Professor Soren Galatius | Real numbers, complex numbers, then what? |
March 4 | Professor Richard Schoen | Deforming complicated plane curves to simple ones |
March 11 | Zack Geballe (Berkeley) | The 32 symmetries of crystal lattices |
April 8 | Professor Ralph Cohen | Knots, Links, and Braids |
April 15 | Professor Joseph Keller | Mathematics of Sports and Games |
April 22 | Joe Rabinoff | Quaternions in Everyday Life |
April 29 | Brandon Levin | What's the Deal with -163? |
May 6 | Professor Stephen DeBacker (U. Michigan) | The Seven Color Theorem |
May 13 | Professor Andras Vasy | Generalized Functions |
May 20 | Professor Steven Kerckhoff | Polygonal Billiards |
May 27 | Professor Gautam Iyer | Who Wants to be a Millionaire (the really hard math version) |