University of Georgia
Mathematics Department
VIGRE Seminar 2004-2005

This page contains the schedule for the VIGRE Seminar for the current academic year.
Maps of Campus. For the weekly seminar schedule click here.

All VIGRE seminars take place on Tuesday at 2:00p.m., in Room 304 in Boyd Graduate Studies, unless otherwise specified.

August 2004

August 12, 2004 - Thursday Speaker: Andrew Sornborger, University of Georgia Title of talk: Mathematical aspects of electrical excitation and wave propagation in the heart Abstract: August 17, 2004 - Tuesday Speaker: Elham Izadi, University of Georgia Title of talk: Sheaves and quivers, 2:00 Abstract: August 19, 2004 - Thursday Speaker: Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia Title of talk: Rational points on curves Abstract: August 24, 2004 - Tuesday Speaker: Cal Burgoyne, University of Georgia Title of talk: Clifford algebra and spinors Abstract: August 26, 2004 - Thursday Speaker: Dan Nakano and Brian Boe, University of Georgia Title of talk: Support varieties for symmetric groups and Lie algebras Abstract: August 31, 2004 - Tuesday Speaker: Der-Chen Chang , Georgetown University Title of talk: On the $\bar\partial$-Neumann Problem Abstract:

September 2004

September 7, 2004 - Tuesday Speaker: Mukul Patel, on leave from UGA Graduate Program in Mathematics Title of talk: Overcoming Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem Abstract: September 14, 2004 -Tuesday, Speaker: Wu Li, NASA Langley Research Center Title of talk: Multidisciplinary Optimization Branch Abstract: September 21, 2004 -Tuesday Speaker: Emille Davie, University of Georgia Title of talk: Knots in S^3 and Rational 2-Tangles Abstract: September 28, 2004 - Tuesday Speaker: Robert Varley, University of Georgia Title of talk: Constructing the field equations for force and matter in particle physics Abstract:

 

October 2004

October 5, 2004 - Tuesday Speaker: G. Michael Guy, University of Georgia Title of talk: Eliminating Envy Abstract: October 12, 2004 - Tuesday Speaker: R. Varley, University of Georgia Title of talk: Derivation of Maxwell's equations by gauge theory Abstract: October 26, 2004 Speaker: Valerie Cormani, University of Georgia Title of talk: Groebner Bases Abstract:

November 2004

November 2, 2004 Speaker: Kyunglim Nam, University of Georgia Title of talk: Box Spline Tight Frames for Edge Detection. Abstract: November 16, 2004 Speaker: Jingzhi Tie, University of Georgia Title of talk: Lewy's operator and its connection with the Heisenberg group and complex analysis Abstract: November 23, 2004 Speaker: Joe Fu, University of Georgia Title of talk: Toward (more) mathematics of paper: bending, folding, creasing and crumpling Abstract: November 30, 2004 Speaker: Mukul Patel, on leave from UGA Graduate Program in Mathematics Title of talk: Noncommutative Gelfand-Naimark Duality. Abstract:

December 2004

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January 2005

January 18, 2005 Speaker: Bree Ettinger, University of Georgia Title of talk: something about airplanes Abstract: January 25, 2005 Speaker: Will Kazez, University of Georgia Title of talk: A topological approach to the geometry of surfaces Abstract:

February 2005

February, 1, 2005 Speaker: Clay Petsche, University of Georgia Title of talk: The p-adic Numbers Abstract: February 8, 2005 Title: Tutorial -- How to make a webpage February 15, 2005 Speaker: Jason Parsley, University of Georgia Title: The Poincare Conjecture Abstract: February 22, 2005 Speaker: Chad Mullikin, U. of Georgia Title of talk: The Algebra Dance Abstract:

March 2005

March 1, 2005 Speaker: Carrie Wright, University of Georgia Title of talk: Conway Polynomials and Finite Fields Abstract: March 8, 2005 - Room 328 Boyd Graduate Studies Speaker: Greg Warrington, Wake Forest University Title of talk: Juggling Probabilities Abstract: March 22, 2005 Speaker: Pete Casazza, University of Missouri Title of talk: An (Historical) Introduction to Weyl-Heisenberg Frames and Signal Processing Abstract: March 29, 2005 Speaker: Brian Cook, Southern Polytechnic State U. Title of talk: Weaker prime bias from analytic number theory Abstract:

April 2005

April 5, 2005 Speaker: Malcolm Adams, University of Georgia Title of talk: Poincare-Hopf Theorem and the Replicator Equations of Evolutionary Game Theory April 12, 2005 Speaker: Jon Kujawa, University of Georgia Title of talk: A few problems of Paul Erdos (solved and unsolved) Abstract: April 19, 2005 Speaker: Nadia Masri, U. of Illinois Title: The Congruent Number Problem Abstract:

Your comments and suggestions for future speakers are most welcome.
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