University of Georgia
Department of Mathematics
Seminar Schedule
December 5 – December 9, 2005
All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.

MONDAY, December 5, 2005

Topology/Geometry
2:30pm, Room 303
Speaker: Tom Banchoff, Brown University
Title: Surfaces in 4-Space and the Internet
Abstract: Internet-based technology provides new tools and techniques for visualization of the topology and geometry of surfaces and hypersurfaces in 4-space. What new things can we learn about classic examples, like the flat torus, the Veronese real projective plane, and knots in the 3-Sphere? The talk will conclude with some new insights into characteristic classes.

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

TUESDAY, December 6, 2005

VIGRE-Graduate Student Seminar
2:00p.m., Room 303
No Meeting – Seminar will resume in the Spring 2006

WEDNESDAY, December 7, 2005

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

Number Theory Seminar/Arithmetic Geometry
3:30pm, Room 304
Speaker: TBA
Title of talk: TBA

VIGRE-Algebra Group
3:45p.m., Room 302

THURSDAY, December 8, 2005

VIGRE – Feynman Diagrams
2:00pm, Room 326

VIGRE – Cardiac Physiology
2:00p.m., Room 640

VIGRE-Algebraic Geometry Group
3:30pm, Room 323

FRIDAY, December 9, 2005

Algebra
2:30-3:30pm., Room 304
Speaker: Gail Letzter,Virginia Tech
Title: Quantum Symmetric Pairs and Reflection Equations
Abstract: There are two different ways to form quantum symmetric pairs: a definition using a set of generators and a construction involving solutions to the reflection equations. A key step in relating the two approaches is determining the centers of the coideal subalgebras used to form quantum symmetric pairs. This leads to new solutions of the reflection equations associated to exceptional Lie algebras.