[Email from Alice Lin] Hello my keen beans! I hope you’re free next Thursday 3/7 at 6 pm–Professor Tadashi Tokieda from Stanford will be talking about math for a general audience, and I’m sure that it will be not only approachable but also fascinating! See below for more details. Best regards, Alice Fun bonus reading: […]
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Photos from last boardgame night
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Board Game Night (February 23 Fine Hall Common Room 9PM)
Message from Social Chairs: Board games. Free pizza. Trading away all of your wheat, then playing the monopoly card to get it all back. Need I say more? –Matthew Yuan
Update: Professor Fefferman’s Talk will be in Jadwin A06
Today at 4:30pm
Colloquium with Professor Charles Fefferman
Who? Professor Charles Fefferman What? Quantitative Differentiation When? Thursday, February 21 at 4:30 Where? Fine Room TBA Food? Sushi Abstract: Let f(x) be a Lipschitz continuous function on R^n. By a standard theorem of real analysis, f is differentiable at almost every point x0. Under a powerful microscope, the graph of f near such a […]
First Math Colloquium of the Year (2019)
Message from academic chairs: Get excited for a great talk next Wednesday by Professor Zeev Dvir featuring Bubble Tea! Who? Professor Zeev Dvir What? The Cap-set Problem When? Wednesday, February 13 at 4:30 Where? Fine 214 Food? Your choice of either Boba or Bubble Tea Abstract: A cap set in is a set not containing […]
Undergraduate Colloquium, Wednesday, May 7th
We will be having a colloquium this coming Wednesday at 5 pm in Fine 214. The speaker will be Prof. Gang Tian who specializes in geometric analysis. Check out his profile/wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Tian The title of the talk will be “Conic spherical metrics”. Here is the abstract: I will discuss the problem of constructing spherical structures on […]
Undergraduate Colloquium, Monday, April 28
The next colloquium will be this coming Monday, 4/28, given by Prof. Yakov Sinai. It will be at 5pm in Fine 322. He will be talking about deterministic chaos and here is the abstract: Deterministic chaos is a property of deterministic dynamics. I shall explain main properties of chaotic dynamics and give some example of […]
Undergraduate Colloquium, Wednesday April 9th
When: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, April 9th (coming Wednesday) Where: Fine 214 Who: Prof. Adam Levine, who specializes in low-dimensional topology (and he only joined Princeton this academic year!) You can check out some details here:https://www.math.princeton.edu/news/home-page/mathematics-department-welcomes-new-faculty What: Title: Knot Concordance Abstract: Concordance is the study of which knots in three-dimensional space can be realized […]