University of Georgia

Mathematics Department Tuesday VIGRE Seminar

This page contains the schedule for the VIGRE Seminar for the current academic year. In most cases it also contains a link to an abstract of the talk. For seminar schedules click here.

Except for Orientation week, all VIGRE seminars take place on Tuesday at 2:00 PM, in room 304 in Boyd Graduate Studies. Here are maps of the campus.

Your comments and suggestions for future speakers are most welcome. Please email izadi@math.uga.edu or call my office at Boyd 503: (706) 542-2615 (where you can leave a message) or fax: (706) 542-2573 or (706)542-5907.

August 2002


  • August 13
    • Jason Cantarella
    • How much rope does it take to tie a knot? The geometry of knots in biology, mathematics, and physics.
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  • August 15
    • Joan Hoffacker
    • The derivative of x^2 is 2x . . . or is it?
    • abstract


  • August 20
    • Dino Lorenzini
    • The rank of an elliptic curve
    • abstract


  • August 27
    • Valery Alexeev and Ivan Cheltsov
    • Birational Algebraic Geometry
    • abstract

    September 2002


  • September 3
    • David Hemmer
    • Alperin's weight conjecture for the symmetric group
    • abstract


  • September 10
    • Matthew Baker
    • April Fools, Elliptic Curves, and Complex Multiplication
    • abstract


  • September 17
    • David Penniston
    • Local zeta functions
    • abstract


  • September 24
    • Ralph Howard
    • Affine geometry of convex sets in the plane
    • abstract

    October 2002


  • October 1
    • Daniele Arcara
    • Can't define a map? Just blow it up!
    • abstract


  • October 8
    • Calvin Burgoyne
    • String Theory
    • abstract


  • October 15
    • Guantao Chen
    • Long Cycles in 3-connected graphs
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  • October 22
    • Janice Wethington
    • Constructing monomial ideals with a desired Thom-Boardman invariant
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  • October 29
    • Robert Varley
    • Solving Maxwell's equations
    • abstract

    November 2002


  • November 5
    • William Graham
    • Combinatorics and geometry
    • abstract


  • November 12
    • Daniel Nakano
    • Old and new results for nilpotent matrices
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  • November 19
    • William Rulla
    • Moduli spaces of curves
    • abstract

    December 2002


  • December 3
    • Mihály Bakonyi
    • Nehari's Problem and Generalizations
    • abstract

    January 2003


  • January 14
    • Sanford (Sandy) Ganzell
    • 4-manifolds: From beginning to ends
    • abstract


  • January 21
    • Vitali Vologodski
    • Maps between moduli spaces
    • abstract


  • January 28
    • James Solazzo
    • Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation
    • abstract

    February 2003


  • February 4
    • Bree Ettinger
    • Derivative approximations on time scales
    • abstract


  • February 11


  • February 18
    • John Conlon
    • Simple asset price bubbles when everyone knows that everyone knows ... that the asset is worthless
    • abstract


  • February 25
    • Brian Conrad
    • Prime values of polynomials
    • abstract

    March 2003


  • March 4
    • David (Jim) Blair
    • Chains of spheres
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  • March 11
    • Tawanda Gwena
    • Rational surfaces with emphasis on the Cubic Surface
    • abstract


  • March 25
    • Matthew Baker
    • Linear recurrence sequences and p-adic numbers
    • abstract

    April 2003


  • April 1
    • Markus Hunziker
    • The icosahedron and E_8
    • abstract


  • April 8
    • Joseph Rusinko
    • Calculating the Rank in families of Elliptic Curves
    • abstract


  • April 15
    • Preliminary exam


  • April 22
    • Melinda Harvey
    • A New Time Scale- ArcLength
    • abstract


  • April 29
    • Caroline Wright
    • Representation Theory and the Symmetric Group
    • abstract