Room & time: AP&M B402A, Thursdays 12:00nn-12:50pm (refreshments at 11:45am)
Organizer: David A. Meyer
This is a series of talks, by mathematicians and scientists who use mathematics in their research, designed to provide an entertaining, understandable, and informative introduction to what mathematics is like outside textbooks. Registered students should miss no more than one of the talks to receive credit.
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28 sep 06 David Meyer UCSD Mathematics & Institute for Physical Sciences |
Winning elections with point-set topology |
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5 oct 06 Nitya Kitchloo UCSD Mathematics |
Fun with spaces |
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12 oct 06 Larry Frank UCSD Center for Functional MRI |
Mathematical challenges in magnetic resonance imaging |
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19 oct 06 Russell Quong |
Treating data like vodka: hashing, mashing and distributing |
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26 oct 06 Jamie Pommersheim Reed College Mathematics |
Is infinity plus one prime? (Or: Factorization in the omnific integers) |
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2 nov 06 Wee Teck Gan UCSD Mathematics |
To modularity and beyond |
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9 nov 06 Dan Rogalski UCSD Mathematics |
The projective plane: Or, how to make ends meet |
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16 nov 06 Lily Xu UCSD Mathematics and Family & Preventive Medicine |
TBA |
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23 nov 06 Thanksgiving |
no colloquium |
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30 nov 06 Kristin Lauter Microsoft Research |
Cryptography and expander graphs |
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10 oct 06 |
registration deadline for the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition; contact Jeff Rabin for information about registration and practice sessions |
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23 oct 06 |
recruiters for Los Angeles Unified School District in San Diego; download poster for information |