All talks are at 4:15 in HH229 unless otherwise noted.
To volunteer to give a talk, or for anything else regarding the seminar contact Megan Patnott.
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Monday, September 1 | David Galvin | The “Happy End Problem” — A Mathematical Love Story |
Monday, September 15 | Bonnie Smith | Monomial Ideals and the Core |
Monday, September 29 | Don Brower | The Random Graph is Simple |
Monday, October 27 | Tom Edgar | Rock the Vote or Vote The Rock |
Monday, November 10 | Steven Broad | Umbilics, Lines of Curvature and a Conjecture of Caratheodory |
Monday, December 1 | Richard Gejji | The Calculus on Time Scales |
Monday, January 26, 2009 | David Karapetyan | Well Posedness of the Camassa-Holm Equation on the Torus |
Monday, February 2 | CANCELED | |
Monday, February 16 | Stacy Hoehn | Manifolds and the Shape of the Universe |
Monday, April 6 | Josh Lioi | An Applied Mathematics Perspective on Blood Clotting |
Monday, April 20 | Ryan Grady | A Mathematical Introduction to Quantum Field Theory |
Monday, May 4 | TBD | (This is during finals week and may be canceled) |
Given any 5 points in the plane, no three collinear, some 4 of them must form the vertices of a convex quadrilateral. (Go ahead and convince yourself --- it's fairly easy).
Now let's try to generalize. Is there an f(n) such every set of f(n) points in the plane, no three collinear, contains n points that form the vertices of a convex n-gon?
This is the ``Happy End'' problem, posed in the early 1930's. Its solution touches on topics from graph theory, logic and analysis, as well as giving rise to a love story that spanned over seventy years and two continents.