Past talks
Author: raphy
February 19, 2015
2014
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 10/6 |
Eli Appleboim (Technion) |
A geographical riddle |
| 13/5 |
Eitan Lapidot (Haifa) |
Herbert and the Hungarian Mathematician |
| 22/4 |
Eli Berger (Haifa) |
Is the sum of all natural numbers minus 1 over 12 ? |
| 1/4 |
Raphael Yuster (Haifa) |
Probability versus intuition |
| 18/3 |
Ofir Schnabel (Haifa) |
Partitioning the integers by arithmetic sequences |
| 4/3 |
Kobi Peter (Haifa) |
Sequences of positive integers that (seemingly) increase rapidly but eventually tend to zero |
| 14/1 |
Victor Harnik (Haifa) |
What is descriptive geometry? |
2013
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 3/12 |
Frol Zapolsky (Haifa) |
Hanukkah Surprise! |
| 19/11 |
Yael Algom-Kfir (Haifa) |
The mapping class groups |
| 12/11 |
Anna Melnikov (Haifa) |
Mathematics of Genom and Molecular Biology |
| 18/6 |
Yitzhak Weit (Haifa) |
Who moved my function? |
| 21/5 |
Toufik Mansour (Haifa) |
Bell numbers, Stirling numbers and Touchard polynomials |
| 23/4 |
Gil Vernik (IBM Research, Haifa) |
Storage data reduction through data de-duplication and data compression |
| 9/4 |
Lior Bary-Soroker(Tel-Aviv) |
My prime polynomials and other animals |
| 12/3 |
Oleg Kelis(Haifa) |
Mathematical models |
| 8/1 |
Frol Zapolsky (Haifa) |
Quasi-morphisms on groups of geometric origin |
2012
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 25/12 |
Debasis Sen (Haifa) |
Cayley Dickson Algebras and Vector fields on Spheres |
| 11/12 |
Lucas Fresse (Haifa) |
On the Jordan curve theorem |
| 27/11 |
Anna Melnikov (Haifa) |
Linear Algebra in everyday life |
| 13/11 |
David Blanc (Haifa) |
Newton’s proof of Kepler’s Laws |
| 30/10 |
David Blanc (Haifa) |
To Infinity and Beyond (FILM). By: Marcus du Sautoy |
| 19/6 |
Yuri Rabinowich (Haifa) |
From graphs to simplicial complexes |
| 5/6 |
David Blanc (Haifa) |
Non-Euclidean Geometry from Euclid to Hilbert |
| 8/5 |
Jonathan Arazy (Haifa) |
Contractive projections |
| 27/3 |
Victor Harnik (Haifa) |
Compass constructions and inversion transformation |
| 13/3 |
Sagi Snir (Haifa) |
Challenges in exact sciences in light of breakthroughs in molecular biology |
| 17/1 |
Moshe Roitman (Haifa) |
Ultraproducts |
| 3/1 |
David Blanc (Haifa) |
The geometry of the earth |
2011
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 20/12 |
Gadi Moran (Haifa) |
The Riemann and Levy-Steinitz Theorems on sums of conditionally convergent series |
| 6/12 |
Joseph Zaks (Haifa) |
On regular pentagons and (unrelated) on the combinatorial aspects of the Fibonacci sequence |
| 22/11 |
Toufik Mansour (Haifa) |
Recurrence relations with two indices |
| 8/11 |
David Blanc (Haifa) |
Film Festival |
| 24/5 |
Eli Berger (Haifa) |
Conway’s Surreal Numbers |
| 3/5 |
Sergey Liflandsky (Haifa) |
Calculus of Variations |
| 5/4 |
Shoham Sabach (Technion) |
Generalized Newton methods to find zeros of functions in one variable |
| 22/3 |
Dr. Mark Shattuck (Haifa) |
Geometric Inequalities of the Plane |
| 8/3 |
Dr. Leah Epstein (Haifa) |
On selfish agents and the Internet |
| 11/1 |
Prof. Izu Vaisman (Haifa) |
A generalization of the Poincare hyperbolic metric |
2010
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 28/12 |
Prof. Victor Harnik (Haifa) |
Linear models of economy |
| 14/12 |
Prof. Mikhail Katz (Bar Ilan) |
Fashioning the integers into a Bernoullian continuum |
| 30/11 |
Prof. Raphael Yuster (Haifa) |
P versus NP |
| 16/11 |
Prof. Gadi Moran (Haifa) |
Three Gems of Plane Geometry |
| 8/6 |
Prof. Gregory Chaitin (IBM T.J Watson) |
The Search for the Perfect Language |
| 25/5 |
Prof. Kobi Peterzil (Haifa) |
The Euler Characetristic of groups |
| 27/4 |
Prof. Tatiana Bandman (Bar Ilan) |
Genus |
| 23/3 |
Prof. Prof. Tefera Worku (University of Addis Ababa) |
Fundamental groups in traditional Ethiopian handicrafts |
| 16/3 |
Prof. Leonid Makar-Limanov (Wayne State) |
Centralizers |
| 2/3 |
Prof. Victor Harnik (University of Haifa) |
The mathematics of the Jewish calendar |
| 5/1 |
Prof. Yossi Zaks (University of Haifa) |
Geometry they could have taught us in high school, but didn’t |
2009
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 29/12 |
Gadi Moran (University of Haifa) |
Quaternions |
| 8/12 |
Raphael Yuster (University of Haifa) |
Polynomial identity testing and its applications |
| 24/11 |
David Blanc (University of Haifa) |
On topology and robots |
| 10/11 |
Yuval Ginosar (University of Haifa) |
When are two real numbers coprime? |
| 27/10 |
none |
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