Spring 2009 talk schedule

We usually meet in 508 Math at 7:30 and the talk takes place in 520 or 507 nearby.

January 28 **Wednesday**James Ouyang
Columbia Undergrad
Claude Lévi-Strauss and Structuralism through Group Theory
February 4 **Wednesday**David Keyes
Columbia
Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing
February 11 **Wednesday**Alice Rizzardo
Columbia Grad Student
Billiards
February 18 **Wednesday**Giwan Kim
Columbia Undergrad
Representations of Lie Algebras
February 25 **Wednesday**Adam Levine
Columbia Grad Student
3 - Manifolds and Surgery
March 2 **Monday**Ina Petkova
Columbia Grad Student
Knots and Surfaces
March 11 **Wednesday**Dusa McDuff
Columbia
What is symplectic geometry? -- complex numbers and the camel
March 25 **Wednesday**Christopher Lopez
Columbia Undergrad
Pontryagin Duality and Abelian Groups
March 31 **Tuesday**Irena Penev
Columbia Grad Student
Internal Set Theory and Nonstandard Analysis
April 8 **Wednesday**Claire Zukowski
Columbia Undergrad
Applications of Group Theory in Physics
April 15 **Wednesday**Atanas Atanasov
Columbia Undergrad
What is a variety? What is a toric variety?
April 22 **Wednesday**Alexander Perry
Columbia Undergrad
Schemes
April 29 **Wednesday**Yael Degany
Columbia Undergrad
An Introduction to Graphs

Past talks