Many Cheerful Facts

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Many Cheerful Facts meets on Wednesdays at 11:10 am in 1015 Evans Hall. The talks are given by graduate students and are aimed at a general mathematical audience. The talks are about 50 minutes long.

If you are interested in giving a talk, or baking some cookies or a cake, then contact either Emily Peters or Chris Pries.

The next Many Cheerful Facts talk, What are the Weil Conjectures? by David Speyer, will be on Wednesday, September 15th at 11am in 1015 Evans.

Previous Talks

• Fall 2004
  • What are the Weil Conjectures?, by David Speyer
• Spring 2004
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying, by David Freeman
  • Finite Differences, Discrete Fourier Transforms, and the Nature of Stuff, by Ian Sammis
  • The Cartier Operater and Computing Generating Functions Modulo $p$, by David Speyer
  • Graphical Expansion of Non-commutative Matrix Integrals, by Josephine Yu
  • Rigidly Defined Areas of Doubt and Uncertainty, by Eli Lebow
  • There Are Only So Many Varieties, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cell Decomposition, by Janak Ramakrishnan
  • Four-dimensional Platonic Solids , by Emily Peters
  • Dreaming of Pipes in Catalonia, by Alex Woo
  • Galois Theory for Differential Fields, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Model Theory, by John Goodrich
  • Scandal at Marseille-Luminy: $\zeta(3)$ apparently irrational, by Jared Weinstein
  • Sums of Squares, by Jeremy Marzuola
  • Mathematical Physicists Get More Action, by Rajan Mehta
  • My Favorite Color is Zero, by Paul Baginski
  • Just What is Normal, Anyway?, by Peter Tingley
• Fall 2003
  • Impredicativity, by Russell O'Connor
  • How to Untie a Doughknot, by Andy Cotton
  • Hey Gauss, What's Your Sign?, by David Zywina
  • A Few Random Facts, by Soroosh Yazhdani
  • Every Injection is a Surjection, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 7th Floor, by Janak Ramakrishnan
  • Groups with Large Representations, by Noah Snyder
  • X^2=0, Upper Triangular Matrices, and Why the Answer isn't Just X=0, by Brian Rothbach
  • Fractional Graph Invariants, by Ari Nieh
  • Aztec Diamonds and More, by David Speyer
  • How to Build a Monster, by Scott Carnahan
• Spring 2003
  • Simpliciality Itself, by Grace Lyo
  • e^{\pi\sqrt{163}} still almost in Z, by David Speyer
  • Low Dimensional Topology for Fun and Profit, by Cliff Stoll
  • Variations on Witt Vectors, by Jesse Elliott
  • The real Functions on the Reals, by Charlie Smart
  • e^{\pi\sqrt{163}} almost in Z, by David Speyer
  • I Will Divide, by Gloria Gaynor (Nick Proudfoot)
  • How Not To Be Smooth, by A.J. Tolland
  • Can You Hear The Shape of a Graph?, by Ben Webster
  • Why The Quaternions Have Two Holes, by Noah Snyder
  • A Proof that P=NP, by Mike Develin
  • Sheaves on Manifolds, by Joel Kamnitzer
• Fall 2002
  • How to Multiply and Evaluate Polynomials: Setting Free Your Inner Harmonic Analyst, by Ilan Hirshberg
  • Spectral Sequences and other Ghost Candy, by Andre Henriques
• Spring 2002
  • Hot and Cold for Mathematicians, by Alfonso Gracia-Saz
  • Weird and Wonderful Partitions, by Vishwanath Sankaran
  • Toric Varieties are Fun!, by Nicholas Proudfoot
  • A Drunken Walk through Mathematics, by Alex Barnard
  • The BEST Card Trick, by Michael Kleber
  • How to draw 4-manifolds, by Matt Harvey
  • Why Fourier was a Smart Guy, by Michael Goldberg
  • The Four Color Theorem, by Elisenda Grigsby
  • A mathematical theory of drunkenness, by Chris Tuffley
  • If God is a symplectic geometer, we're all going to Hell, by Tom Coates
• Fall 2001
  • Exotic Spheres, by Nicholas Proudfoot
  • Let it Flow! Let it Flow! Let it Flow!, by Rob Myers
  • Non-Positive Curvature, by Jacob Lurie
  • Exponential Iterated Integrals and Solvable Completions of Fundamental Groups, by Carl Miller
  • Pictures for Cohomology, by Andre Henriques
  • The Real Real Numbers, by Russel O'Connor
  • Modular Forms for Beginners, by Alex Barnard
  • Iterated Line Graphs and the Degree Conjecture, by Michael Develin
  • All Topes Right and Parallel, all Ratios Great and Small, by Tracy Hall
  • The Non-Commutative Torus, by Ilan Hirshberg
  • Calabi-Yau Threefolds, by Hsian-Hua Tseng
  • Rational Points on Curves and Surfaces, by Ronald van Luijk
  • Transcendental Baby, by Jamie Haletky
• Spring 2001
  • 3-Manifolds Under the Knife, by Tom Coates
  • Let's Get Curvy!, by Ben Davis
  • Symplexomania: a study of the lattice A_n, by Andre Henriques
  • Banchoff's Theorem, or how visible can the projective plane get?, by Tamas Kalman
  • I Would Rather Go to Math Camp than Smake a Joint, by Russel O'Connor
  • RSA-Decryption Done Quickly, by Julia Kempe
  • K-Theory: Linear Algebra Gone Horribly Wrong, by George Kirkup
  • Facts Flowing Freely from Graphs to Groups, by Chris Tuffley
  • Bondage and Domination: the talk the math department doesn't want you to see, by Michael Develin
  • An Introduction to Groebner Bases, by Amit Khetan
  • Blowing Gaskets, by Tracy Hall

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Last modified: March 22, 2004