MAA Podcast Center

Lectures

Kevin McCurley - November 19, 2009. "Modeling Similarity in the Age of Data"
Frank A. Farris - September 9, 2009. "Hyperbolic Wallpaper " Article.
Keith Devlin - July 1, 2009. "Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?" Article.
Robert Lang - June 25, 2009. "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes." Article.
Michele Osherow, Manil Suri, and Erin Weaver - May 18, 2009. "The Mathematics Behind Tom Stoppard's Arcadia." Article.
JoAnne Growney and Karren Alenier - April 28, 2009. "Mathematical Poetry." Article.
Edward Belbruno, Princeton University - April 2, 2009. "Low Energy Pathways in Space, Chaos and Random Walk." Article.
Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin - March 19, 2009. "The Fourth Dimension." Article.
Dan Kalman, American University - March 12, 2009. "Provincial Polynomia: Uncommon Excursions for the Seasoned Visitor." Article.
Andrew Granville, University of Montreal - November 13, 2008. "Patterns in the Primes." Article.
Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University - October 28, 2008. "Spinning Heads and Spinning News: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media." Article.
Ruth Charney, Brandeis University - October 14, 2008. "Modeling with Cubes." Article.
George Gheverghese Joseph, University of Manchester - September 23, 2008. "The Politics of Writing Histories of Non-Western Mathematics." Article.
Martin Golubitsky, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University - August 21, 2008. "Patterns Patterns Everywhere." Article.
Keith Devlin, Stanford University - July 2, 2008. "When Mathematics Changed the World." Article.
Karl Rubin, University of California, Irvine - May 16, 2008. "Right Triangles and Elliptic Curves." Article.
Margaret Wright, New York University - March 5, 2008. "What Can We Say After We Say We're Sorry? or, Adventures in Optimization." Article.
David Bressoud, Macalester College - September 19, 2007. "Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture." Article.
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley - May 17, 2007. "The Joy of Solving Equations." Interview.

Invited Speaker Previews
2009
Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College. "Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards on the Interval Between 5.700439718 and 806...."
Ravi Vakil, Stanford University. "Classical structure in modern geometry, or modern structure in classical geometry."
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University. "Perfect Graphs-Structure and Recognition."
Percy Deift, Courant Institute-New York University. "Integrable Systems: A Modern View."
Peter M. Winkler, Dartmouth College. "Stacking Bricks and Stoning Crows."
Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota. "Stability, Consistency, and Convergence: Modern Variations on a Classical Theme."

2008
Karen Parshall, University of Virginia. "4000 Years of Algebra: An Historic Tour From BM 13901 to Moderne Algebra."
J. Brian Conrey, The American Institute of Mathematics. "The Riemann Hypothesis."
Fan Chung, University of California San Diego. "The Mathematics of PageRank."
Terence Tao, University of California Los Angeles. "Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers."
Tim Pennings, Hope College. “Do Dogs Know Calculus? Bifurcations at the Beach.”