Seminar Schedule
November 20- November 24, 2006
All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.
MONDAY, November 20, 2006
Topology
2:30pm, Room 304
Speaker: Gordana Matic, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Contact topology and the invariant of Ozsvath
and Szabo, continued
Algebra
3:30pm-5:00pm, Room 302
Speaker: Irfan Bagci, University of Georgia
Title: Cartan Type Lie superalgebras and Relative Cohomology
Abstract: We will discuss basic theory of Lie Superalgebras
over the complex numbers, V.Kac's classification of simple Lie superalgebras,
and relative cohomology for Lie superalgebras. We will discuss how classical
invariant theory results can be applied to compute relative cohomology and some
calculations we did for the Cartan Type Lie superalgebras W(n).
Faculty and Graduate Student Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea
TUESDAY, November 21, 2006
VIGRE Graduate Student Seminar
2:00pm, Room 302
Speaker: Neil Lyall, University of Georgia
Title: Additive patterns in the primes
Abstract: Many classical questions concerning additive patterns
in the primes remain unsolved; the twin prime conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture
are two famous examples. Another long standing open problem, to show that the
primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic, was recently solved by Green and
Tao (Tao received the Field's Medal in 2006 for this result). We hope to give
an elementary overview of this seminal result as well as Gowers' revolutionary
Fourier analytic proof of Szemer\'edi's theorem (Field's Medal 1998).
Wavelets and Splines
2:30pm, Room 524
Speaker: Ming-Jun Lai, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Bivariate Splines for Forecasting, continued
WEDNESDAY, November 22, 2006
University Holiday – No Seminars Scheduled
THURSDAY, November 23, 2006
University Holiday – No Seminars Scheduled
FRIDAY, November 24, 2006
University Holiday – No Seminars Scheduled