Many Cheerful Facts - Fall 2006


Sarah Iveson is running Many Cheerful Facts this semester. The talks will be on Wednesdays 12:10-1pm in 1015 Evans (unless otherwise noted).

If you want to give a talk email Sarah at siveson at berkeley dot edu.

The website from Spring 2006.

Abstracts from old talks can be found here and on the MGSA website.


Special talk on September 14!

Janos Csirik, (one of Professor Ribet's former students) will be giving a talk about his experiences with math outside academia on Wednesday, September 14 4:10-5:00pm in 60 Evans. There will be time for Q&A with Janos after the talk. The abstract can be found here.


Schedule of the talks:

DATE SPEAKER TALK
September 6 Daniel Erman Mathematical Question 11851
September 13 Jeff Doker Six, Five, and Four-and-a-Quarter: A Few Color Theorems
September 20 Manny Reyes Rings with Invariant Base Number
September 27 Matt Satriano $\int e^{-x^2}\mathrm{d}x$ and Friends
October 4 Shenghao Sun Category Theory as a Language
October 11 Uri Andrews Group Renting
October 18 Tegan Cheslack-Postava But how Big is it REALLY? - a discussion of dimension and measure
October 25 Patrick Barrows Locally Compact Hausdorff Spaces and Commutative C^* Algebras - takes one to know one
November 1 Greg Igusa Ruler, compass, paper, and beyond - Trisecting the angle
November 8 David Brown Number Theory for Everyone
November 15 Jonah Blasiak Breaking $\mathbb{Q}[x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4]$ into tetris pieces
November 22 No talk this week Happy Thanksgiving
December 6 John Zhu Economic Theology