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Logic Seminar: David Ross 1:30 pm
Logic Seminar: David Ross @ Keller Hall 303
Oct 6 @ 1:30 pm – Oct 6 @ 2:30 pm
TITLE: Asymptotic Fixed Points, Part I. ABSTRACT: By a standard exercise, a uniform contraction on a complete metric space has a fixed point. Easy examples show that this fails if the contraction is not uniform.[...]
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Colloquium: David C. Webb 2:30 pm
Colloquium: David C. Webb @ Keller 401
Oct 7 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Speaker: David Webb (Associate Professor of Mathematics Education Executive Director, Freudenthal Institute US University of Colorado Boulder School of Education) Title: Infusing Active Learning Design Principles in the Undergraduate Calculus Sequence Abstract: This interactive presentation[...]
Colloquium: Pamela Harris (Williams) 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Pamela Harris (Willi...
Oct 7 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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Colloquium: Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College) 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Victor Donnay (Bryn ... @ Keller 401
Oct 14 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Speaker: Victor Donnay, William Kenan, Jr Professor of Mathematics and Director, Environmental Studies program, Bryn Mawr College Title: Connecting Math and Sustainability Abstract: How can we better inspire our students to study and succeed in[...]
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André Nies: A gentle introduction to randomness and $K$-triviality 1:30 pm
André Nies: A gentle introductio...
Oct 18 @ 1:30 pm – Oct 18 @ 2:20 pm
Keller 303 Introduction for grad students and other beginners, as a prequel to Thursday’s talk.
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Analysis Seminar: Thomas Hangelbroek @ Keller 313 3:30 pm
Analysis Seminar: Thomas Hangelb...
Oct 19 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Title: A curiosity of the trace operator II Abstract: I’ll discuss the regularity of the trace operator on various smoothness spaces. In short, this is an operator which reduces (roughly) smoothness as measured in L_p[...]
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Logic Seminar: André Nies 1:30 pm
Logic Seminar: André Nies
Oct 20 @ 1:30 pm – Oct 20 @ 2:30 pm
Speaker: André Nies (University of Auckland), Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Title: Structure within the class of $K$-trivial sets Abstract: The $K$-trivial sets are antirandom in the sense that the initial segment[...]
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Grad student seminar (all welcome) – Michelle Manes 12:30 pm
Grad student seminar (all welcom... @ Keller 301
Oct 21 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Hilbert’s third problem, scissors congruence, and the Dehn invariant
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Logic Seminar: David Ross part II 1:30 pm
Logic Seminar: David Ross part II
Oct 27 @ 1:30 pm – Oct 27 @ 2:30 pm
TITLE: Asymptotic Fixed Points, Part II ABSTRACT: Continuing the earlier seminar, I will give nonstandard proofs for one or more (depending on time) results like the one below (which consolidates and generalizes a number of[...]
Colloquium: Joe Gerver (Rutgers) 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Joe Gerver (Rutgers)
Oct 27 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Speaker: Joe Gerver (Rutgers) Title: Non-collision singularities in the n-body problem: history and recent progress Abstract: In the 1890′s, Poincare asked whether, in the n-body problem with point masses and Newtonian gravitation, it is possible[...]
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Colloquium: Michelle Manes (UH Mānoa) 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Michelle Manes (UH M... @ Keller 401
Oct 28 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Speaker: Michelle Manes (UH Mānoa) Title: Curve-based cryptography, a tour of recent developments Abstract: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) was first proposed in the mid 1980s, but it took 20 years for ECC algorithms to become[...]
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