Dartmouth Math Colloquia for Fall Term, 2009

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

Follow the links to get abstract.

Thursday
Sept. 24

David Ben McReynolds, University of Chicago

Bertrand's postulate and subgroup growth

Thursday
Oct. 01

John Voight, University of Vermont

 Huge Rings of low rank with a standard involution and quaternion rings

Thursday
Oct. 08

Rasul Shafikov, University of Western Ontario

Uniformization of domains in complex manifolds

Thursday
Oct. 15

David Johnson, AT&T Labs

Bin Packing: From Theory to Experiment and Back Again

Thursday
Oct. 22

 Chris Danforth, University of Vermont
 

Forecasting Chaotic Physical Processes

Thursday
Oct. 29

Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bell Labs
 

Caging and Linking

Thursday
Nov. 05

Tom Tucker, University of Rochester


Dynamical Mordell--Lang problems

Thursday
Nov. 12

Alex Barnett, Dartmouth College

High-accuracy computation of photonic crystal bands and scattering of waves from polygons

Thursday
Nov. 19

Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University

Estimates from below: spectral function, remainder in Weyl's law and resonances

Thursday
Nov. 26

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Thursday
Dec. 03

Colva Roney-Dougal, University of St. Andrews

 

Primitive groups and maximal subgroups