Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar
Spring 2005

The Columbia Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar takes place Tuesdays at 7:30 pm in 520 Mathematics. All are welcome.

Schedule of upcoming talks

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

Date Speaker(s) Affiliation Standing Title
February 1 Ilya Kofman Columbia Assistant Professor Geometric and quantum invariants of knots
February 8 Kiril Datchev Columbia Undergraduate Student Existence and Uniqueness of the Real Numbers
February 15 Mohammad Moinul Haque Columbia Undergraduate Student The Omega Transform and Generating Functions
February 22 Peter Bank Columbia Assistant Professor Shuffling Cards and Markov Chains
March 1 Florian (Ian) Sprung Columbia Undergraduate Student Taxicabs, cubic curves and faking irrationality
March 8 Ilya Vinogradov Columbia Undergraduate Student Pick's theorem and Diophantine equations
March 22 Dinakar Ramakrishnan Caltech Professor Average L-values, class numbers and special points
March 28 on Monday Abhinav Kumar Harvard Graduate Student Spherical codes, kissing numbers and linear programming bounds
April 5 Michael Thaddeus Columbia Associate Professor The Game of Lights Out
April 12 Jordan Ellenberg Princeton Assistant Professor THE MATHEMATICS OF SET, or EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT COMBINATORIAL GEOMETRY I LEARNED PLAYING CARDS
April 14 Barry Mazur Harvard Assistant Professor Where are all these rational poinys on elliptic curves coming from?
April 19 Dorian Goldfeld Columbia Professor The abc conjecture
April 26 Ben Weiss Columbia Undergraduate Student Probabilities in the Game of Set

For schedules from other sessions visit the Seminars page.