Bay Area Mathematical Adventures of the past
2007-2008:
Date Speaker Topic
April 2 Kannan Soundararajan From Tic-Tac-Toe to Additive Combinatorics
February 27 Leslie Hogben Matrices, Digraphs, Markov Chains & Their Use by Google, more: ppt slideshow
February 7 Keith Devlin Extra talk: Making Millions the Easy Way
January 16 Art Benjamin Combinatorial Trigonometry (and a method to DIE for), more: CombTrig, DIE
November 29 Joe Gallian The Mathematics of Identification Numbers
Oct 24, 2007 Richard Borcherds Very Large Integers
Sep 26, 2007 Martin Isaacs Pentagons, Soccer Balls and Euler

2006-2007:
Date Speaker Topic
May 9, 2007 V. I. Arnold "Real Algebraic Geometry"
Apr 11, 2007 Jean Pedersen "My Favorite Mathematical Toys"
Feb 23, 2007 Carl Pomerance "Prime time for primes"
Jan 17, 2007 Brian Conrey "The Riemann Hypothesis"
Dec 6, 2006 Robin Hartshorne "History of Imaginary Numbers"
Oct 4, 2006 Ron Graham "Mathematics and Computers: Problems and Prospects"
2005-2006:
Date Speaker Topic
Apr 12, 2006 David Bressoud "The Art of Counting"
Mar 15, 2006 Kenneth Ribet "Modularity and Congruence Counting"
February 15, 2006 Helen Moore "Mathematical Rx"
January 18, 2006 Scott Kim "Tales of a Mathematical Puzzle Designer"
November 19, 2005 Colm Mulcahy "Magic with Math (Eine Kleine Nachtmagie)
October 19, 2005 Michael Beeson "The Mechanization of Mathematics"
September 21, 2005 Dan Goldston "Are There Infinitely Many Twin Primes?"
2004-2005:
Date Speaker Topic
April 29, 2005 Helmer Aslaksen "Heavenly Mathematics: The Mathematics of the Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Gregorian Calendars"
April 5, 2005 Joe Gallian "The Making of the 2003 Math Awareness Month Poster"
March 16, 2005 John Horton Conway "Some Very Interesting Sequences"
February 11, 2005 Steven Krantz "How to Reveal All Your Secrets without Imparting Any Concrete Information"
December 1, 2004 Erica Flapan "When Topology Meets Chemistry"
November 3, 2004 Francis Edward Su "How to Cut a Cake (and Other Things) Fairly: The Mathematics of Conflict Resolution"
September 29, 2004 John Mitchem "Paradoxes in Averages"
2003-2004:
Date Speaker Topic
April 7, 2004 Jennifer Quinn "Proofs that Really Count: Exploring Patterns in Pascal's Triangle"
March 3, 2004 Ravi Vakil "Mathematics of Doodling"
January 14, 2004 Thomas Banchoff "From Flatland to Hypergraphics: Interactive Geometry on the Internet"
December 3, 2003 Frank Farris "The Edge of the Universe: where we may find Hyperbolic Wallpaper"
November 5, 2003 Thomas Cover "Idiosyncracies in sports and gambling"
October 7, 2003 Doris Schattschneider "Mathematical problems posed by Escher's Tessellations"
2002-2003:
Date Speaker Topic
April 4, 2003 John Stillwell "1, 2, 4, 8: Dimensions We Appreciate"
March 3, 2003 Donald Saari "Mathematical Surprises about Voting"
February 12, 2003 Richard Scott "Triangles - the Thick and Thin of it"
December 7, 2002 Bjorn Poonen "Elliptic Curves"
November 6, 2002 Joel Haas "Algorithms in Topology"
October 2, 2002 Persi Diaconis "Mathematics and Coincidences"
2001-2002:
Date Speaker Topic
April 3, 2002 Tom Davis "The Mathematics of Computer Graphics"
March 1, 2002 Frank Morgan "The Soap Bubble Geometry Contest"
February 6, 2002 Jean Pedersen "Platonic Divisions of Space"
December 12, 2001 Ed Schaefer "When is an Integer the Product of Two and Three Consecutive Integers?"
November 7, 2001 Abigail Thompson "Some Knotty Problems"
October 5, 2001 Arthur Benjamin "Proofs that really count"
2000-2001:
Date Speaker Topic
April 4, 2001 Susan Holmes "Probability by Surprise"
March 9, 2001 Dimitri Fuchs "Cusps"
February 7, 2000 Joe Buhler "Paradoxes in Probability and Applications"
December 1, 2000 Joe Gallian "Breaking Drivers' License Codes"
November 1, 2000 Peter Stevenhagen "Triangles, Squares, Oranges and Cuboids"
September 27, 2000 Carl Pomerance "PRIMES!"
1999-2000:
Date Speaker Topic
April 5, 2000 Helen Moore of Stanford "Space Shuttle Geometry"
March 1,2000 Sherman Stein "What did Archimedes do besides cry Eureka?"
February 2, 2000 Robert Osserman "Mathematical Mapping from Mercator to the Millennium"
November 17, 1999 Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr. "Harmonic Numbers"
October 27, 1999 Don Chakerian "The Method of False Position, or, Can Two Wrongs Make a Right?"
September 29, 1999 Zvezdelina Stankova-Frenkel "Geometric Puzzles and Constructions"
1998-1999:
Date Speaker Topic
April 14, 1999 Robin Wilson "Wonderland"
March 24, 1999 Andrew Wiles Fermat's Legacy (Extra: talk at Stanford)
March 17, 1999 Sheldon Axler "Mathematics vs. The Silicon Age: Who Wins?"
February 3, 1999 Rudy Rucker "The Fourth Dmension in Mathematics and Science Fiction"
December 2, 1998 Karl Rubin "Right Triangles and Elliptic Curves"
November 4, 1998 Paul Zeitz "Hopping Frogs, Powers of Two, and the Dominance of the Digit 1" (pdf)
September 30, 1998 Ron Graham "Juggling Permutations of the Integers"