Dartmouth Math Colloquia for Fall Term, 2006

Seminars are (usually) on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in 007 Kemeny Hall.

Follow the links to get abstracts.

Thursday
Oct 5
Joel Spencer, Courant Institute

The Erdos--Renyi phase transition
Thursday
Oct 12
Henry Cohn, Microsoft

Universally optimal distribution of points on spheres
Thursday
Oct 19
John Oprea, Cleveland State University

Mathematics and Soap Films
Thursday
Oct 26
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University

Poncelet porism, old and new: Poncelet grid and the billiard in an ellipse
Thursday
Nov 2
Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College

The Classification of Legendrian Knots and Links
Thursday
Nov 9
Mikhail Shubin, Northeastern Univesity

KdV, mKdV and eigenfunctions of Schroedinger operators
Thursday
Nov 16
Jim Henle, Smith College

Squaring the Plane
Thursday
Nov 23
 
Thursday
Nov 30
 
Thursday
Dec 7
 
Thursday
Dec 14