The Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar

Current Semester and Home Page

FALL 2000

The regular time and place for the Fall Y2K seminar was

3:45-4:45 on Wednesdays in
Room LN-2206,
preceded by coffee, tea, and cookies at 3:15 in the Anderson Room, LN-2207.

Organizers: Thomas Zaslavsky and Matthias Beck

  • Wednesday, September 13
    Speaker: Matthias Beck
    Title: Dedekind Cotangent Sums

  • Colloquium talk: Thursday, September 21
    Time: 4:30-5:30
    Room: LN-2205
    Speaker: Ravi Ramakrishna (Cornell)
    Title: Fermat's Last Theorem: From the 1600's to 1994

  • Wednesday, September 27
    Speaker: Dikran Karagueuzian
    Title: Trace Lemmas

  • Wednesday, October 4
    Speaker: Steve Tedford
    Title: A Bound on the Size of Alternating Links, I: Graph Theory
    Room: LN 2205 (note change for today)

  • Wednesday, October 11
    Speaker: Steve Tedford
    Title: A Bound on the Size of Alternating Links, II: Knot Theory
    (This talk will not require familiarity with the first talk.)
    Room: LN 2205 (note change for today)

  • Wednesday, October 18
    Speaker: Steve Tedford
    Title: A Bound on the Size of Alternating Links, III: Knot Theory
    Room: LN 2201 (note change for today)

  • Wednesday, October 25
    Speaker: Steven Dougherty (Scranton)
    Title: Shadows and Spaces

  • Note change of schedule!
    Wednesday, November 1
    Speaker: Steven Dougherty (Scranton)
    Title: Shadows and Spaces (continued)

  • Wednesday, November 8
    Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky
    Title: Perpendicular Dissections of Euclidean Space, With Gain Graphs

  • Wednesday, November 15
    Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky
    Title: Composed Partitions of a Set, With Gain Graphs

  • Wednesday, November 29
    Speaker: Steve Tedford
    Title: The Alexander Polynomial, an Introduction

  • Wednesday, December 6
    Speaker: Matthias Beck
    Title: On Sperner's Inequality and Its Generalizations
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