MASS - Colloquia

This is a weekly series of lectures by distinguished visitors and Penn State research faculty. These lectures are instrumental in focusing the interest of PMASS participants on various research areas both during their participation in the program and in their future selection of graduate programs.

2011

Morley’s theorem
John Roe, The Pennsylvania State University
Ramanujan, Fibonacci numbers, and continued fractions
George Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University
Equiareal dissections
Sergei Tabachnikov, The Pennsylvania State University
Billiard table as a mathematician's playground
Anatole Katok, The Pennsylvania State University
Theorems of Poncelet and Marden -- two of the most beautiful theorems
Vladimir Dragovic, MI SANU Belgrade/ GFM, University of Lisbon
The bigness of things
Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Maryland visiting the Pennsylvania State University
Symbolic dynamics
Omri Sarig, The Pennsylvania State University

2012

The first digit
Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago
Commutative and Noncommutative Symmetric Functions
Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University
Being right more often can make you more wrong
John Roe, The Pennsylvania State University
Physical discoveries and proofs of mathematical theorems
Mark Levi, The Pennsylvania State University
Lake fish population estimates and mixing properties
Jana Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL, Uruguay
The Continuum Hypothesis
Jan Reimann, The Pennsylvania State University
The Navier-Stokes equations
Eugene Wayne, Boston University

2013

A short history of length
Joel C. Langer, Case Western Reserve University
Prime number theorem
Andrey Gogolev, Binghamton University
Bezout's theorem
Karl Schwede, Penn State
Geometry and arithmetic of Apollonian gasket
Alexandre Kirillov, University of Pennsylvania
Fractals and dimension
Victoria Sadovskaya, Penn State
Proofs from the Book
Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State
Game Theory 101: numerical modeling of life events
Eii Byrne, Penn State