This semester some energetic PhD students at the FU started a series of student seminars called the "What is..." or "Was ist eigentlich..." seminars. The idea is for students to give basic talks about things they are quite familiar with to try to explain them to fellow students and consolidate their own understanding.
I was asked to give a talk to fill a gap before the end of semester, so I just spoke about the Chromatic Number of the Plane problem. I tried to give an overview of the problem and what I know of the history of it. It went ok, though I maybe should have given some more detailed proofs. As is my style, I tried to avoid really proving anything, just giving a vague handwaving idea of proof where that was possible. In any case it was good practice for the seminar talk I'm going to give for our research group in September. That one will have to be a bit more precise!
Here is the page with some photos from the talk. There's video too but you can only view it from within FU networks. Berlin maths kids reading this should consider giving one of the talks! It's fun, honest.
Saturday, 19 July 2008
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I can talk until I'm away in mid august.
It's very bad actually that videos are only available inside of the FU network, since those who can download are exactly those who have seen it alive most probably.
very strange, by the way - this entry has appeared on my rss-reader just now.
I'm not sure if they continue through the summer break... though there is something scheduled for this thurday.
You could talk soon, though I'd miss it cos I'll be away til August 26! And I don't want to miss it!
I think they don't want to offer the videos to the whole internet because it would take so much bandwidth!
it's not that strange... i back-dated it :)
oh please - don't flatter yourself, that is math! why the heck would there be much downloads :) Besides I think one can store all this vids on some external service, like GoogleVideo.
Anyway I am always happy to talk, both general audience and research - finding somebody who wants to listen to you seems the more difficult part.
good point! i wasn't thinking that lots of people would watch it... but that is the reason I was told, that the files are too big. Could be a general rule they have, dunno.
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