Cookie seminar

General Information: Cookie seminar will take place on Mondays at 3:30 in the 9th floor lounge area. Talks should be of interest to the general math community, and generally will not run longer then 20 minutes. Everyone is welcome to talk, please just sign up on this page. Alternatively I will also sign interested people up at the seminar itself. As one would expect from the title there will generally be cookies provided, although the snack may vary from week to week.

To sign up please provide your name and a title. Abstracts are welcome but optional.

Seminar talks:

September 24

Speaker	Diane Holcomb
Title	The Probabilistic method (using probability to solve questions in other areas of mathematics)

October 1

Speaker	Jean-Luc Thiffeault
Title	The mathematics of juggling (with no physical demonstration whatsoever)

October 8

Speaker	Nicos Georgiou
Title	Growth models on the Quadrant

October 15

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October 22

Speaker	Joel Robbin
Title	Parking a Car and Lie Brackets.
Abstract	This is an account of Ed Nelson's explanation of Lie brackets and car parking on pages 33-36 of his 1967 book on Tensor Analysis (see https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/ta.pdf). It may become an exercise in Diermar Salamon's version (see http://www.math.ethz.ch/%7Esalamon/PREPRINTS/diffgeo.pdf) of my Differential Geometry course from 1982 (see http://www.math.wisc.edu/~robbin/0geom.pdf). My current writeup is at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~robbin/parking_a_car.pdf.

October 29

Speaker	Seymour Parter
Title	Life in a Closed City: Los Alamos, NM Circa 1951

November 5

Speaker	Silas Johnson
Title	Arrow's impossibility theorem
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