A combinatorial construction of a non-measurable set

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Robin Thomas – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Bulent Tosun
I will present a construction of a non-measurable set using the fundamental fact that a graph with no odd cycles is 2-colorable. That will not take very long, even though I will prove everything from first principles. In the rest of the time I will discuss the Axiom of Choice and some unprovable statements. The talk should be accessible to undergraduates.