Department of Mathematics The Florida State University

This Week in Mathematics

11 - 15 November 1996

Monday: 11 November 1996
No Graduate Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 102 Love Building

Tuesday: 12 November 1996
Hopf Algebra Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building

H. Jia, Florida State University

Basic Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups

Knot Theory Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building

Javier Arsuaga, Florida State University

In Vivo Knotting Abolishes DNA Chromatin Assembly

Wednesday: 13 November 1996
(Real) Analysis Seminar, 2:30 p.m., 102 Love Building

to be announced

Complex/Symbolic Analysis Coffee, 3:30 p.m., 105 Love Building

Complex/Symbolic Analysis Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 102 Love Building


Yaacov Kopeliovich, Florida State University

On Homology Basis of Curves, I

Thursday: 14 November

No Algebra Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building

MAA Meeting at Tallahassee Community College

Applied Seminar, 3:30 p.m., 200 Love Building

to be announced

No Topology Tea Time, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building

No Topology Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building


MAA Meeting at Tallahassee Community College

Friday: 15 November 1996
Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building

Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., 101 Love Building


Juoko Vaananen, Academy of Finland & University 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.

Scientific Computing Seminar, 4:30 p.m., 200 Love Building

David Kopriva, Florida State University

An Unstructured Mortar Spectral Multi-Domain Method for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

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Ivo D. Dinov
Mathematical Modeling of Medical Images
Many studies of medical images involve developing algorithms for determining the similarities between images obtained by using various scanning modalities on various subjects. We will talk about the mathematics behind a proposed new transform method used for analysis of 2D and 3D images of the human brain. In particular, we will discuss the discrete fractal and the discrete wavelet transformations, some of their properties and applications.

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Graduate Student Seminar: Coming Attractions

18 November....
02 December....

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

21 November....
28 November....Thanksgiving --- no classes
05 December....

Topology Seminar: Coming Attractions

21 November....Jack Quine, Florida State University
28 November....Thanksgiving --- no classes
05 December....Jack Quine, Florida State University

Scientific Computing Seminar: Coming Attractions

Scheduled Colloquia Speakers - Fall 1996

22 November....Gaston Gonnet (ETH, Zuerich)
22 November....Thanksgiving --- no classes
06 December....

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
21 March......
28 March......
04 April......
11 April......
18 April......