The Hitchhiker's Guide to

Mathematics

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Mathematics started Spring 1995 as a graduate student seminar in our department, giving all interested students the possibility of touristic excursions into different areas of Mathematics, as well as guiding others through an interesting field and thereby practicing the art of being a good guide.

We have about 10 students attending on a regular basis and giving about one talk per quarter each. The presentations are accesible to a graduate student who has passed the qualifying exams.

The next meeting will be

• Rostislav Protasov, On Asymptotic Properties of the LSE, 5/19/97
• Chris Johnston, Solutions to x'(t) = -f(x(t-1)), 5/12/97
• Daniel Matei, How many cusps can a curve have?, 5/5/97
• Oleg Gleizer, Berenstein-Zelevinski Triangles, 4/29/97

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• Michael Green, Groebner Bases II, 3/3/97
• Michael Green, Groebner Bases, 2/24/97
• Chris Johnston, Linear Time Lag Equations, 2/3/97
• Robert Gassler, Segre numbers and hypersurface singularities, 1/27/97.

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• Daniel Matei, Hilbert's 16th Problem, 5/20/96.
• Xi Du, Surfaces with negatice constant Gaussian curvature, 5/13/96.
• Robert Gassler, What is flatness?, 5/6/96.
• Nick Gonciulea, Toric varieties arising from finite distributive lattices, 4/22/96.
• Igor Oleinik, Isospectral manifolds, 4/15/96.
• Heiko Ewert, Taut Submanifolds and Hyperpolar Group Actions, 4/8/96.
• Micheal Roth (Harvard), Intersection Homology, 4/1/96.

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• Heiko Ewert, Taut submanifolds and hyperpolar group actions, 3/4/96.
• Jon Ball, Continued Fractions, 2/26/96.
• Mike Green, Newton Polygons and Curve Singularities, 2/19/96.
• Daniel Mattei, Vassiliev Invariants of Knots, 2/12/96.
• Alfred Noel, Splines in Computer Aided Geometric Design, 1/29/96 at 4 pm.
• Robert Gassler, Integrals of Singular Differential Forms, 1/22/96.

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• Chris Johnston, The Angle of Parallelism in the Hyperbolic Plane, 12/5/95.
• Igor Oleinik, Five Particle Problems, 11/28/95.
• Oleg Gleizer, Geometric Quantization, 11/21/95.
• Alfred Noel, Classification of Nilpotent Orbits in Classical Lie ALgebras, 11/14 /95,
• John Lindhe, Recurrence and Number Theory, 11/7/95.
• Michael Green, Singularities and Dynkin Diagrams.
• Robert Gassler, Invariant Varieties of Singular Vector Fields.
• David Lang, The Banach-Tarski Paradox.
• Daniel Mattei, Vassiliev Invariants of Knots.
• Michael Green, Singularities in Optics

If you have any questions or comments,
contact Michael Green or John Lindhe.