Dartmouth Math Colloquia for Winter Term, 2006

Seminars are (usually) on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in Carson L02 Hall.

Follow the links to get abstracts.

Thursday
Jan 12
Sergi Elizalde, Dartmouth College

Combinatorics from biology: inference functions and sequence alignment
Thursday
Jan 19
 
Thursday
Jan 26
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Knots, Spin Networks and Anyonic Topological Quantum Computing
Friday
Feb 3
Ryan O'Donnell, Microsoft Theory Group and University of Washington

Noise stability, in elections and elsewhere
Tuesday
Feb 7
Christine E. Heitsch, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Combinatorial Results Motivated by Computational Biology
Thursday
Feb 9
Joshua Cooper, ETH - Zurich

A Deterministic Random Walk on the Integers
Friday
Feb 10
Aaron D. Jaggard, Tulane Univeristy

Theory for the design of robust inter-domain routing protocols
Monday
Feb 13
Lewis P. Bowen, Indiana University

Packings, aperiodic tilings and their finite approximations
Wednesday
Feb 15
Rados Radoicic, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Intersection patterns of geometric objects
Thursday
Feb 16
Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University

Rational generating functions and compositions
Thursday
Feb 23
Dmitry Fuchs, Dartmouth College

Decomposition of Fronts and Their Role in Contact Geometry
Thursday
Mar 2
3:30 PM
Nik Weaver, Washington University

Mathematical Conceptualism
Thursday
Mar 9
 
Thursday
Mar 16
 
Thursday
Mar 23