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Department of Mathematics
The Florida State University


1997 Lawton Lecture
20 October 1997, Monday, 4:00 p.m.
Turnbull Conference Center
1997 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
De Witt Sumners
Mathematics: Calculating the Secrets of Life
A reception will follow the lecture


This Week in Mathematics
13 - 17 October 1997

Graduate Seminar, 1:30 p.m., 204B Love Building
Complex/Symbolic Coffee, 3:15 p.m., 105 Love Building
Complex/Symbolic, 3:35 p.m., 102 Love Building
Rares Dianu, Swiss Federal Technical University Lausanne
Problems Related to the Torus with a Singular Point
We study a torus with a singular point. The aim of our work is to give explicitely its length spectrum - in some sense a "genetical code" of such a surface.
In order to do that we give the hyperbolic structure of a surface with singular points. Then we are interested in studying the building block - called a V-piece - of such surfaces.
Moreover we study a special family of geodesics on the V-piece, called the necklaces-geodesics. We show that this family has an element of maximal length.

Knot Theory Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building
Ivo Dinov, Florida State University
A Sub-Volume Thresholding Technique for Statistical Analysis of Human Brain Functional Data

Wednesday: 15 October 1997
Complex/Symbolic Coffee, 3:15 p.m., 105 Love Building
Complex/Symbolic, 3:35 p.m., 102 Love Building
Pekka Smolander, University of Joensuu
Computing Values of Quadratic Differentials on Riemann Surfaces

Thursday: 16 October 1997
(Real) Analysis Seminar, 2:30 p.m., 102 Love Building
Informal Seminars this Semester
[contact oberlin@math.fsu.edu for additional information]
Algebra Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building
Warren Nichols, Florida State University
Algorithms in Invariant Theory
Applied Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 200 Love Building
Steve Blumsack, Florida State University
Mathematical Models in Genetics: Selection
Topology Tea Time, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
Topology Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building
Eric Klassen, Florida State University
Hurwitz Spaces and Braid Group Representations

Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., 101 Love Building
Carel Faber, Oklahoma State University
Linear Orbits of Plane Curves
The plane curves of a given degree are parametrized by a projective space. The projective linear group, the group of automorphisms of the projective plane, acts on this projective space. We study the orbits of this action, and their closures in the projective space. The main results will be illustrated by means of examples.
Mathematical Biophysics, 3:30 p.m., NHMFL A336
[Attending Atlanta AMS meeting where Jack Quine will speak on "Geometry of Some Protein Configurations".]
Scientific Computing Seminar, 4:30 p.m., 200 Love Building
Christopher Tam, Florida State University
Advances in Numerical Boundary Conditions for CAA

Seminars and colloquia to be held at that
"other" university
[a.k.a. the University of Florida]

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