Dartmouth Math Colloquia for Winter Term, 2007

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

Follow the links to get abstracts.

Friday
Jan 5
Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University

Formal Verification and Mathematical Understanding
Thursday
Jan 11
Dorin Dutkay, University of Central Florida

Wavelets and fractals
Thursday
Jan 18
Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems

The Challenges of Communications Interception and Security in the Internet Age
Friday
Jan 26
Josephine Yu, UC Berkeley

The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation
Wednesday
Jan 31
Sergi Elizalde, Dartmouth College

A bijection between 2-triangulations and pairs of non-crossing Dyck paths
Friday
Feb 2
Peter Keevash, Caltech

The Hypergraph Turan Problem
Tuesday
Feb 6
David Galvin, University of Pennsylvania

Spin models in combinatorics, computer science and statistical physics
Friday
Feb 9
Gregg Musiker, UCSD

Combinatorics of Elliptic Curves and Chip-Firing Games
Thursday
Feb 15
Owen Dearricott, Dartmouth College

Positive curvature on 3-Sasakian manifolds
Thursday
Feb 22
Matthew Horton, Wellesley College

Ihara zeta functions of irregular graphs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Thursday
March 1
Aaron Levin, Brown University

Constructing Number Fields with Ideal Class Groups of Large Rank
Thursday
March 8
Florian Luca, UNAM

The largest prime factor of a Mersenne number