Seminar Schedule
November 26 - November 30, 2007
All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.
MONDAY, November 26, 2007
Algebra
No meeting this week
Topology
No meeting this week
Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Tea, Cookies
TUESDAY, November 27, 2007
VIGRE - Graduate Student Seminar
No meeting this week
FRG Analysis and Additive Combinatorics Working Group
3:30pm, Room 410
WEDNESDAY, November 28, 2007
Algebraic Geometry
2:30pm, Room 410
Speaker: TBA
Title of talk: TBA
Faculty and Graduate Student Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea
Arithmetic Geometry/Number Theory
3:30pm, Room 304
Speaker: Charles Pooh, Wolfram Research
Title of talk: Holonomic sequences and automated proofs of identities.
Abstract: An holonomic sequence is a sequence that satisfies a linear recurrence relation with polynomial coefficients. Numerous combinatorial sequences such as Fibonacci, binomial sequences, hypergeometric sequences are holonomic. We will present the theoretical framework needed to prove identities for holonomic sequences (Cassini's identity, summation identities that involve Fibonacci, factorials, binomial coefficients, ...)
Mathematical Physics
3:45pm, Room 302
Speakers: Brad Bassler and Robert Varley, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Caratheodory's formulation of thermodynamics
THURSDAY, November 29, 2007
Applied Math
2:00pm, Room 302
Speaker: TBA
Title of talk: TBA
VIGRE Tropical Geometry
2:00pm, Room 304
VIGRE Number Theory
2:30pm, Room 326
VIGRE Algebraic Geometry
3:30pm, Room 323
VIGRE Circle Packing
3:30pm, Room 222
FRIDAY, November 30, 2007
VIGRE Algebra
1:30pm, Room 302
Geometry
2:30pm, Room 410
Speaker: Matt Mastin, UGA
Title of talk: Calculating Symmetries of Links
Abstract: We will discuss an algebraic approach to categorizing symmetries of links as developed by H. Whitten. A major problem in link tabulation is the calculation of link symmetries; using these algebraic methods we are able to develop an algorithm for generating links and calculating their symmetries. This talk is based on work done by the UGA VIGRE Geometry groups led by Jason Cantarella.