Dartmouth Math Colloquia for WinterTerm, 1998

Seminars are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in room 102, Bradley Hall.

Follow the links to get abstracts.

Thursday
January 22


Homotopy Theory and Closed Geodesics

John McCleary
Vassar College

Thursday
January 29


A curious partition of unity argument related to actions of groupoids and inverse semigroups on C*-algebras

John Quigg
Arizona State University

Thursday
February 5


Special Double Feature

Wavelets and Multiwavelets
Vasily Strela
Dartmouth College

The Rogers-Ramanujan Identities
Jason Fulman
Dartmouth College


Friday
February 6


Tilings, Randomness, and Undergraduate Research

Jim Propp
MIT


Monday
February 9


The Complex of 2-Connected Graphs

John Shareshian
Cal Tech


Tuesday
February 17


Combinatorial Conundrums Can Conceal Continued Fractions

Timothy Chow
University of Michigan


Thursday
February 19


The Theory of Commuting Boolean Algebras

Catherine Yan
Courant Institute


Monday
February 23


Polytopes and Hyperplane Arrangements

Richard Ehrenborg
Cornell


March 5


Fedosov Manifolds

Mikhail Shubin
Northeastern University