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This Week in Mathematics

13 - 17 October 1997

Monday: 13 October 1997

Graduate Seminar, 1:30 p.m., 204B Love Building

[no seminar this week]

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.

Tuesday: 14 October 1997

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

Friday: 17 October 1997

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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