The 15-Minute Seminar
The knowledge snack before lunch
This informal seminar features short talks of at most 15 minutes which discuss fundamental, fascinating or strange bits of pure mathematics:
What is a ... ? The following strange theorem holds: ...! What is the connection between ... and ...?
Time and place? Fridays 11:45 - 12:00 in the "Topologischer Raum".
Everybody is welcome. Feel free to propose a topic!
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 03.05.2019 / 11:45 | Caterina Campagnolo | What is a quasimorphism? |
| 10.05.2019 / 11:45 | Fernando Galaz Garcia | Manifolds with almost non-positive curvature |
| 17.05.2019 | --- | --- no seminar --- |
| 24.05.2019 / 11:45 | Steffen Kionke | How not to divide a square into triangles |
| 07.06.2019 / 11:45 | Martin Günther | Quantum computing |
| 21.06.2019 | --- | --- |
| 28.06.2019 / 11:45 | Stefan Kühnlein | The Conway-Schneeberger 15 theorem |
| 05.07.2019 / 11:45 | --- | --- |
| 26.07.2019 / 11:45 | Fabian Ruoff | Mills' constant: an unusual real number |
| Winter term 2018/19 | ||
| 09.11.2018 / 11:45 | Caterina Campagnolo | Ramsey numbers and the Aliens |
| 16.11.2018 / 11:45 | Jacinta Torres | The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence |
| 23.11.2018 / 11:45 | Holger Kammeyer | Faire und unfaire Preise für Finanzderivate |
| 30.11.2018 | (Geometry day in Heidelberg - no seminar) | |
| 07.12.2018 / 11:45 | Marius Gaeber | Neutrale Spiele und Nim-Zahlen |
| 11.01.2019 / 11:45 | Martin Günther | The infinite random graph (Notes) |
| 18.01.2019 / 11:45 | Sabine Braun | Penrose tilings |
| 25.01.2019 / 11:45 | --- | |
| 01.02.2019 / 11:45 | Steffen Kionke | The Collatz-Conjecture |
| 08.02.2019 / 11:45 | Gabriele Link | Google Page Rank |
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Summer term 2018 |
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| 29.06.18 / 11:45 | Steffen Kionke | What is a "dessin d'enfants"? |
| 06.07.18 / 11:45 | Roman Sauer | Furstenberg correspondence principle |
| 20.07.18 / 11:45 | Benjamin Waßermann |
The inscribed rectangle problem |
| 27.07.18 / 11:45 | Julia Heller | What is a matroid? |