Many Cheerful Facts meets on Wednesdays from 12:10–1:00pm in 1015 Evans Hall. The talks are given by graduate students and are aimed at a general mathematics audience.
If you are interested in giving a talk or baking some cookies or another delicious treat, please contact Morgan Brown, Brad Froehle, or Ivan Ventura.
Previously on Many Cheerful Facts: 2007, 2006 (fall, spring), 2005, 2001–2004.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 30 | Justin Blanchard | A Total Order on Chaos |
| February 6 | Morgan Brown | A Short Introduction to Topolocial Persistence |
| February 13 | Cynthia Vinzant | Pattern Avoidance in Permutations |
| February 20 | Andre Kornell | New Deductive Procedures (Exceptional Time: 1:10-2pm!) |
| February 27 |
Morgan Brown |
How to Find a Spouse |
| March 5 | Steven Sam | Representability by Sums of Squares |
| March 12 | Ivan Matic | Mathematical Games |
| March 19 | Dave Penneys | What Everyone Should Know About Inner Products |
| March 26 | Spring Break; No Talk | |
| April 2 | Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner | Lattices and Sphere Packings |
| April 9 | Jose Alameida | How To Get A Handle On Unbounded Operators (Exceptional Time: 2:10-3pm!) |
| April 16 | Vinicius Ramos | Tropical Curves and Bézout's Theorem |
| April 23 | Mike Hartglass | Tiling Rectangles and Tori |
| April 30 | Brendon Rhoades (U of Minnesota/MSRI) | Kazhdan-Lusztig Theory and You |
| May 7 | George Schaeffer | Algebra or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Non-Unique Factorization (Exceptional Time: 1:10-2pm!) |