Potential talks

Ignas — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:51:38 GMT

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	* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_geometry Tropical geometry]		* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_geometry Tropical geometry]
	* colouring problems, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger%E2%80%93Nelson_problem Hadwiger–Nelson problem]		* colouring problems, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger%E2%80%93Nelson_problem Hadwiger–Nelson problem]
		+	* Category and Measure, just khem borrow khem from [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahmcs/teaching/mc.pdf this talk], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Mazur_game this] is particularly cool, also check out Oxtoby's book "Category and Measure", he has one on the B-M game too.
		+	* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandi%27s_series Grandi's series], could be made into any level talk, covering stuff from philosophical problems (i.e. Thomson's lamp) to the meaning of formal power series and analytic continuation and things like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%80%A6 1+2+3+4+... = -1/12] and why it makes sense! In general, could just be a talk along the lines of "Non-standard summation and it's applications".

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