Events for 04/22/2014 from all calendars

Maxson Lecture Series

Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: BLOC 117

Speaker: Bjorn Poonen, MIT

Title: Undecidability everywhere

Abstract: Over the past century, it has been discovered that undecidable problems arise in nearly all branches of mathematics. I will present a sampling of these, and mention some other problems whose decidability status is not yet known.