Summer 2008, Proofs from THE BOOK - talk schedule

We usually meet in the UNDERGRADUATE lounge about 5-10 minutes prior to the talk which will usually proceed in the same room.

Wednesday, July 2, 2-3 PMAtanas Atanasov
Columbia Undergrad
Lines in the plane and decompositions of graphs (Geometry, Sec 9)
Thursday, July 3, 2-3 PMAlex Perry
Columbia Undergrad
Every finite division ring is a field (Number Theory, Sec 5)
Monday, July 7, 4-5 PMJames Ouyang
Columbia Undergrad
Hilbert's third problem: decomposing polyhedra (Geometry, Sec 8)
Wednesday, July 9, 2-3 PMDaniel Minsky
Columbia Alum, UCSD Grad
Communicating without errors (Graph Theory, Sec 33)
Thursday, July 10, 1-2 PMChris Lopez
Columbia Undergrad
Buffon's needle problem (Analysis, Sec 21)
Monday, July 14, 2-3 PMAtanas Atanasov
Columbia Undergrad
Sperner's Lemma and Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem (Pigeon-hole and Double Counting, Combinatorics, Sec 22)
Wednesday, July 16, 2-3 PMJames Ouyang
Columbia Undergrad
Cotangent and the Herglotz trick (Analysis, Sec 20)
Thursday, July 17, 1-2 PMChris Lopez
Columbia Undergrad
The problem of the thirteen spheres (Geometry, Sec 12, First Edition only)
Wednesday, July 23, 3-4 PMDave Harrison
Columbia Undergrad
The Continuum Hypothesis (Analysis, Sec 16)
Wednesday, July 30, 3-4 PMYael Degany
Columbia Undergrad
Euler's formula & its applications (Geometry, Sec 11)

Past talks