Many Cheerful Facts - Spring 2006


Sarah Iveson and John Zhu are running Many Cheerful Facts this semester. The talks will be on Wednesdays 11:10am-12 in 1015 Evans (unless otherwise noted).

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

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


Schedule of the talks:

DATE SPEAKER TALK
January 25 Dan Erman On Benford's Law
February 1 John Zhu A Theorem of Finite Group Theory
February 8 Greta Panova Many Cheerful Problems
February 15 Kiril Datchev Fixed-Point Techniques in Calculus
February 22 Matt Tucker-Simmons (At Least) Two Approaches to the Jones Polynomial
March 1
12:10pm-1 (time change for this week only)
Alfonso Gracia-Saz, Kenny Easwaran, Alice Medvedev, and Ari Nieh What is Your Axiom of Choice?
March 8 Bernie Anderson A Generic Talk
March 22 Johanna Franklin Scitamehtam
March 29 SPRING BREAK (no talk this week)
April 5 Kenny Easwaran Falsifying Choice
April 12 James Kelley Homotopical Syzygies
April 19 Bianca Viray Many Colorful Graphs
April 26 Sarah Iveson Hessenberg varieties and Young diagrams
May 3 A.J. Tolland Einstein's Equation