{"id":189,"date":"2015-02-19T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/?p=189"},"modified":"2015-02-19T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:57:00","slug":"past-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Past talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/6<\/td>\nEli Appleboim (Technion)<\/td>\nA geographical riddle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/5<\/td>\nEitan Lapidot (Haifa)<\/td>\nHerbert and the Hungarian Mathematician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/4<\/td>\nEli Berger (Haifa)<\/td>\nIs the sum of all natural numbers minus 1 over 12 ?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/4<\/td>\nRaphael Yuster (Haifa)<\/td>\nProbability versus intuition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18\/3<\/td>\nOfir Schnabel (Haifa)<\/td>\nPartitioning the integers by arithmetic sequences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/3<\/td>\nKobi Peter (Haifa)<\/td>\nSequences of positive integers that (seemingly) increase rapidly but eventually tend to zero<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14\/1<\/td>\nVictor Harnik (Haifa)<\/td>\nWhat is descriptive geometry?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/12<\/td>\nFrol Zapolsky (Haifa)<\/td>\nHanukkah Surprise!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\/11<\/td>\nYael Algom-Kfir (Haifa)<\/td>\nThe mapping class groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/11<\/td>\nAnna Melnikov (Haifa)<\/td>\nMathematics of Genom and Molecular Biology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18\/6<\/td>\nYitzhak Weit (Haifa)<\/td>\nWho moved my function?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21\/5<\/td>\nToufik Mansour (Haifa)<\/td>\nBell numbers, Stirling numbers and Touchard polynomials<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23\/4<\/td>\nGil Vernik (IBM Research, Haifa)<\/td>\nStorage data reduction through data de-duplication and data compression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/4<\/td>\nLior Bary-Soroker(Tel-Aviv)<\/td>\nMy prime polynomials and other animals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/3<\/td>\nOleg Kelis(Haifa)<\/td>\nMathematical models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/1<\/td>\nFrol Zapolsky (Haifa)<\/td>\nQuasi-morphisms on groups of geometric origin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2012<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
25\/12<\/td>\nDebasis Sen (Haifa)<\/td>\nCayley Dickson Algebras and Vector fields on Spheres<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12<\/td>\nLucas Fresse (Haifa)<\/td>\nOn the Jordan curve theorem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/11<\/td>\nAnna Melnikov (Haifa)<\/td>\nLinear Algebra in everyday life<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/11<\/td>\nDavid Blanc (Haifa)<\/td>\nNewton’s proof of Kepler’s Laws<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30\/10<\/td>\nDavid Blanc (Haifa)<\/td>\nTo Infinity and Beyond (FILM). By: Marcus du Sautoy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\/6<\/td>\nYuri Rabinowich (Haifa)<\/td>\nFrom graphs to simplicial complexes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/6<\/td>\nDavid Blanc (Haifa)<\/td>\nNon-Euclidean Geometry from Euclid to Hilbert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/5<\/td>\nJonathan Arazy (Haifa)<\/td>\nContractive projections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/3<\/td>\nVictor Harnik (Haifa)<\/td>\nCompass constructions and inversion transformation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/3<\/td>\nSagi Snir (Haifa)<\/td>\nChallenges in exact sciences in light of breakthroughs in molecular biology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17\/1<\/td>\nMoshe Roitman (Haifa)<\/td>\nUltraproducts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/1<\/td>\nDavid Blanc (Haifa)<\/td>\nThe geometry of the earth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2011<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
20\/12<\/td>\nGadi Moran (Haifa)<\/td>\nThe Riemann and Levy-Steinitz Theorems on sums of conditionally convergent series<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6\/12<\/td>\nJoseph Zaks (Haifa)<\/td>\nOn regular pentagons and (unrelated) on the combinatorial aspects of the Fibonacci sequence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/11<\/td>\nToufik Mansour (Haifa)<\/td>\nRecurrence relations with two indices<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/11<\/td>\nDavid Blanc (Haifa)<\/td>\nFilm Festival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24\/5<\/td>\nEli Berger (Haifa)<\/td>\nConway’s Surreal Numbers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/5<\/td>\nSergey Liflandsky (Haifa)<\/td>\nCalculus of Variations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/4<\/td>\nShoham Sabach (Technion)<\/td>\nGeneralized Newton methods to find zeros of functions in one variable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/3<\/td>\nDr. Mark Shattuck (Haifa)<\/td>\nGeometric Inequalities of the Plane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/3<\/td>\nDr. Leah Epstein (Haifa)<\/td>\nOn selfish agents and the Internet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1<\/td>\nProf. Izu Vaisman (Haifa)<\/td>\nA generalization of the Poincare hyperbolic metric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2010<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
28\/12<\/td>\nProf. Victor Harnik (Haifa)<\/td>\nLinear models of economy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14\/12<\/td>\nProf. Mikhail Katz (Bar Ilan)<\/td>\nFashioning the integers into a Bernoullian continuum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30\/11<\/td>\nProf. Raphael Yuster (Haifa)<\/td>\nP versus NP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16\/11<\/td>\nProf. Gadi Moran (Haifa)<\/td>\nThree Gems of Plane Geometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/6<\/td>\nProf. Gregory Chaitin (IBM T.J Watson)<\/td>\nThe Search for the Perfect Language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25\/5<\/td>\nProf. Kobi Peterzil (Haifa)<\/td>\nThe Euler Characetristic of groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/4<\/td>\nProf. Tatiana Bandman (Bar Ilan)<\/td>\nGenus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23\/3<\/td>\nProf. Prof. Tefera Worku (University of Addis Ababa)<\/td>\nFundamental groups in traditional Ethiopian handicrafts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16\/3<\/td>\nProf. Leonid Makar-Limanov (Wayne State)<\/td>\nCentralizers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/3<\/td>\nProf. Victor Harnik (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nThe mathematics of the Jewish calendar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/1<\/td>\nProf. Yossi Zaks (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nGeometry they could have taught us in high school, but didn’t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2009<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
29\/12<\/td>\nGadi Moran (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nQuaternions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/12<\/td>\nRaphael Yuster (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nPolynomial identity testing and its applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24\/11<\/td>\nDavid Blanc (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nOn topology and robots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/11<\/td>\nYuval Ginosar (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nWhen are two real numbers coprime?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/10<\/td>\nnone<\/td>\nMATHEMATICAL FILM FESTIVAL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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)…
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