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Monday: 23 September 1996
Graduate Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 102 Love Building
Tuesday: 24 September 1996
Hopf Algebra Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building
No Knot Theory Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building
Wednesday: 25 September 1996
(Real) Analysis Seminar, 2:30 p.m., 102 Love Building
Complex/Symbolic Analysis Coffee, 3:30 p.m., 105 Love Building
Complex/Symbolic Analysis Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 102 Love Building
Algebra Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building
Applied Seminar, 3:30 p.m., 200 Love Building
Topology Tea Time, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
Topology Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building
Friday: 27 September 1996
No Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
No Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., 101 Love Building
Scientific Computing Seminar, 4:30 p.m., 200 Love Building
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I hope to answer a few of these questions on September 23. I will focus
on Georg Cantor. He basically developed transfinite set theory. It was
something very new and it led Cantor into much criticism and personal
problems. What problems did he encounter? What motivated him? What
started his interest in set theory? Come to the student seminar and find
out.
Graduate Student Seminar: Coming Attractions
Tuesday Algebra Seminar: Coming Attractions
Hopf Algebra Seminar: Coming Attractions
Knot Theory Seminar: Coming Attractions
(Real) Analysis Seminar: Coming Attractions
Complex/Symbolic Analysis Seminar: Coming Attractions
Thursday Algebra Seminar: Coming Attractions
Applied Seminar: Coming Attractions
Topology Seminar: Coming Attractions
Scientific Computing Seminar: Coming Attractions
Brian Felkel
Who is Georg Cantor? What's a trigonometric series?
We often hear the names of mathematicians such as Gauss, Galois, Cauchy,
or Cantor in our classes, yet we know very little about their lives. What
motivated them? What happened in their personal lives? What are their
first names?
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07 October.....
21 October.....Chris Holt, Weird Lattices
04 November....
18 November....
02 December....
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01 October.....Irma Cruz-Rodriguez, Vassiliev Invariants and RNA Folding
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October 30.....Douglas Liao, Unifpack, A Symbolic Calculator for Groups and Riemann Surfaces
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24 October.....
31 October.....
07 November....
14 November....
21 November....
28 November....Thanksgiving --- no classes
05 December....
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03 October.....John Woods
10 October.....no seminar (AMS meeting)
17 October.....Peter Bismuti
24 October.....Aleksandar Poleksi
31 October.....Aleksandar Poleksi
07 November....Ivo Dinov, Florida State University
14 November....Ivo Dinov, Florida State University
21 November....Jack Quine, Florida State University
28 November....Thanksgiving --- no classes
05 December....Jack Quine, Florida State University
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04 October.....Peter Bismuti, Solutions of Problems in Acoustics Using a Multi-Domain Spectral Method
11 October.....Abbas Khavaran, Prediction of Jet Noise from Fine-Scale Turbulence
18 October.....I Michael Navon, Second Order Information in Optimal Control Applied to the Geosciences
25 October.....Homecoming, no seminar
01 November....David Kopriva, An Unstructured Mortar Spectral Multi-Domain Method for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations
08 November....Lighthill Symposium, no seminar
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Scheduled Colloquia Speakers - Fall 1996
04 October.....N. Berloff, Florida State University
11 October.....Abbas Khavaran, Prediction of Jet Noise from Fine-Scale Turbulence
18 October.....M. Fried
25 October.....
01 November....C. Sadosky
15 November....Jouko Vaananen, Academy of Finland & Univ of Helsinki
Logic and Mathematics---from Cantor to Shelah
I discuss the role of logic in mathematics in the light of both
classical and recent advances in mathematical logic. The concepts and
methods of logic have helped us to understand, for example, why
Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis, and algorithmic solution of Diophantine
equations (Hilbert's 1st and 10th problems), are hard or impossible to
solve. On the other hand, the logical analysis of mathematical
structures has uncovered a rich general theory of classes of
structures with a so called complete first order axiomatization. The
most beautiful manifestation of this is S. Shelah's Classification
Theory, the most famous result of which can be summarized as follows:
Classes of structures with a complete first order axiomatization
always contain either maximally many structures, which are moreover
indistinguishable from each other, or rather few structures, all
easily distinguishable from each other.
22 November....Gaston Gonnet (ETH, Zuerich)
22 November....Thanksgiving --- no classes
06 December....
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Scheduled Colloquia Speakers - Spring 1997
17 January....
24 January....
31 January....J. Bona
07 February...R. Vogt
14 February...
21 February...M. Barnsley
28 February...
07 March......S. Wittington
14 March......Spring Break
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