Seminar Schedule
April 11 - 15, 2005

All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.

MONDAY, April 11, 2005

Algebra
2:30 – 3:30p.m., Room 410
No Meeting this week

Probability Theory
2:45 - 4:00p.m., Room 222
No Meeting this week

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00 p.m., Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

Lie Theory
3:30-4:30p.m., Room 303
No Meeting this week

Topology
3:30-4:30p.m., Room 326
Speaker: Will Kazez, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Ozsvath-Szabo invariants (cont)

CATS
4:40-5:30p.m., Room 306
Speaker: Tarsem Purewal, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Nondeterministic quantum computation
Abstract: A handful of attempts have been made to generalize the classical notion of nondeterminism to the quantum complexity setting. In this survey-oriented talk, we'll introduce one of these generalizations due to Adleman, Demarris, and Huang. Not surprisingly, this particular generalization of nondeterminism defines a complexity class - NQP. What is surprising is that a result due to Fenner, Green, Homer and Pruim shows that this class is equal to the classical counting complexity class coC=P!

You can expect me to try to define the quantum computing model, nondeterminism, and various complexity classes. I'll also try to explain why this result is surprising and some of its implications.


TUESDAY, April 12, 2005

VIGRE Graduate Student Seminar
2:00p.m., Room 304
Speaker: Jon Kujawa, University of Georgia
Title: A few problems of Paul Erdos (solved and unsolved)
Abstract: With 1583 papers and hundreds of collaborators, Paul Erdos was easily one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time. As "the prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of problem posers" Erdos could always be depended on to provide innocent looking problems who's solution would illuminate interesting corners of mathematics. For some Erdos even offered cash prizes! In this talk, we will discuss some of problems which interested Erdos. Some are settled, but many are still open. This talk should be accessible to all.

Dynamics on Berkovich Space
2:30 PM Room 326
No Meeting this week


WEDNESDAY, April 13, 2005

Spline Analysis
1:30-2:30pm, Room 326
Speaker: Jianbao Wu, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Navier-Stokes equations on the sphere
Abstract: I will give a detailed explanation of Navier-Stokes equations on the unit sphere.

VIGRE – Cardiac Physiology
2:30p.m., Room 640

Algebraic Geometry
2:15p.m., Room 410
Speaker: Joe Fu, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Operations on unitary valuations, continued

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00 p.m., Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

VIGRE-Algebra
3:30-4:30pm, Room 303
Organizers: Brian Boe and Daniel Nakano, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Data and conjectures on very p partitions

Number Theory
3:45-5:15pm, Room 304
Speaker: Professor Juan Rivera-Letelier, of the Catholic University of Northern Chile, will speak in the Number Theory seminar. His topic will be the dynamics of rational maps on Berkovich space.


THURSDAY, April 14, 2005

VIGRE – Algebraic Geometry
2:00p.m., Room 304

Student Arithmetic/Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30p.m., Room 304
No Meeting this week

FRIDAY, April 15, 2005

Geometry
2:30p.m., Room 326
Speaker: Chad Mullikin, University of Georgia
Title of talk: What I know about Distortion:
Abstract: I will discuss some recent results about Gromov's distortion
problem for knots including some of my results regarding distortion
criticality.


Joint Analysis
3:30p.m., Room 303
Speaker: Ken Johnson, University of Georgia
Title of talk: G-equivariant differential operators on homogeneous vector bundles (continuation of previous talk)

Wavelet Analysis
3:30-4:30p.m., Room 322
Speaker: Haipeng Liu, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Compactly supported prewavelets in Sobolev spaces

VIGRE – Clifford Algebras
3:30-4:45p.m. Room 302