Dartmouth Math Colloquia for Fall Term, 1999

Seminars are (usually) on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in 102 Bradley Hall.

Follow the links to get abstracts.

Thursday
Sept 23
NO COLLOQUIUM -- DEPARTMENT MEETING

Thursday
Sept 30
Rosa Orellana, UCSD and Dartmouth College

The Hecke algebra of type B and the BMW algebra
of type B are centralizer algebras
Thursday
October 7
Ken Brown, Cornell University

The coset poset and probabilistic zeta function of a finite group
Thursday
October 14
Larry Gerstein, UC Santa Barbara

Quadratic Forms over my Favorite Rings
Thursday
October 21
Peter Doyle, Dartmouth College

The UCSD code for trees, OR
How to cheat at clock solitaire
Thursday
October 28
Stefan E. Schmidt, MIT

New Trends in Coding Theory
Thursday
November 4
Chuck McGibbon, Wayne State University

Phantom maps
Thursday
November 11
Jason Cantarella, University of Massachusetts

The Ropelength of Knots and Links
Thursday
November 18
David Handron, Carnegie Mellon University

Counting Billiard Paths using Morse Theory
Thursday
November 25
NO COLLOQUIUM -- THANKSGIVING

Thursday
December 2
Speaker Name, Institution