| Unless noted,
meetings will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00
to 2:15 in Room 113 of the McAllister Building. |
| Tu Jan 16 |
Course introduction |
| Th Jan 18 |
What is ... a p-adic number? |
| Tu Jan 23 |
What is ... the gamma function? |
| Th Jan 25 |
What is ... the Riemann zeta function? |
| Tu Jan 30 |
No class today |
| Th Feb 1 |
Rufus Willet: What is ... a Coxeter group? |
| Tu Feb 6 |
Sergei Orshanskiy: What is ... data compression and Huffman coding? |
| Th Feb 8 |
Zhenqi Wang: What is ... a horseshoe map? |
| Tu Feb 13 |
Thinh Le: What is ... a groupoid? |
| Th Feb 15 |
Xiaotian Zhu: What is ... quadratic reciprocity? |
| Tu Feb 20 |
Van Cyr: What is ... the Schanuel conjecture? |
| Th Feb 22 |
Tyrone Crisp: What is ... the Kronecker-Weber theorem? |
| Tu Feb 27 |
Seunghun Hong: What is ... the Schrodinger equation? |
| Th Mar 1 |
Jiangwei Xue: What is ... a sheaf? |
| Tu Mar 6 |
Nana Wang: What is ... a probabilistic proof? |
| Th Mar 8 |
Vitaliy Gyrya: What is ... the Legendre transform? |
| Tu Mar 13 |
Spring break - no class meeting |
| Th Mar 15 |
Spring break - no class meeting |
| Tu Mar 20 |
The prime number theorem |
| Th Mar 22 |
The Lefschetz fixed point theorem |
| Tu Mar 27 |
The four squares theorem of Lagrange |
| Th Mar 29 |
Seunghun Hong: Spectrum of the hydrogen atom |
| Tu Apr 3 |
Sergey Orshanskiy: Phase transitions in random graphs |
| Th Apr 5 |
Rufus Willet: The Riemann-Roch theorem |
| Tu Apr 10 |
Jiangwei Xue: The Bezout theorem |
| Th Apr 12 |
Zhenqi Wang: Geodesics in the hyperbolic plane |
| Tu Apr 17 |
Van Cyr: The ergodic theorem |
| Th Apr 19 |
Vitaliy Gyrya: Gamma convergence in the calculus of variations |
| Tu Apr 24 |
Xiaotian Zhu: The Dirichlet units theorem |
| Th Apr 26 |
Tyrone Crisp: The Kronecker-Weber theorem |
| Tu May 1 |
Thinh Le: Symplectic manifolds and the Darboux theorem |
| Th May 3 |
Nana Wang: Unsolvability of the word problem |