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Date	Speaker	Seminar	Title
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Barry Simon Caltech	What is... ?	What is the Spectral Theory of Orthogonal Polynomials
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Jeff Rauch UM	What is... ?	What is ... geometric optics?
Tuesday, October 02, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Anna Gilbert Univ of Michigan	What is... ?	What is...Compressed Sensing?
Tuesday, October 09, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Jinho Baik UM	What is... ?	What are ... Tracy-Widom distributions?
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Dmitriy Boyarchenko Univ of Michigan	What is... ?	What is ... Deligne-Lusztig theory
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Yuval Peres Microsoft Research Redmond	What is... ?	What is ... the mixing time and the cover time for random walk on a graph?
Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	David Speyer	What is... ?	What is ... a Grobner basis
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Peter Miller University of Michigan	What is... ?	What is ... the inverse-scattering transform?
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Martin Strauss University of Michigan	What is... ?	What is ... a computer?
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3096 East Hall *	Zuoqin Wang Univ of Michigan	What is... ?	An invitation to spectral geometry
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	Peter Miller Univ of Michigan	What is... ?	What is the inverse-scattering transform?
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	Jean-francois Lafont Ohio State University	What is... ?	What is... a homology manifold?
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	Joseph Silverman Brown University	What is... ?	A whirlwind survey of the arithmetic of elliptic curves
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	Andreas Blass University of Michigan	What is... ?	What Is ... Ingleton's Inequality?
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	John Schotland University of Michigan	What is... ?	What is ... the inverse problem?
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	Mattias Jonsson Univ of Michigan	What is... ?	What is a Berkovich space
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	Bob Griess Univ of Michigan	What is... ?	What is moonshine?
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Start: 2:10 PM Location: 3866 East Hall	Bill Fulton Univ of Michigan	What is... ?	What is ... a bad math talk?

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