Department of Mathematics

The Florida State University

This Week in Mathematics

16 - 20 November 1998

Monday: 16 November 1998

 

Tuesday: 17 November

 

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

       Javier Arsuaga, Florida State University

          Constructing and Detecting Random Knots

Wednesday: 18 November

 

(Real) Analysis Seminar, 2:30 p.m., 102 Love Building

       Working through the Multidimensional van der Corput

       Estimates of Carbery, Christ, and Wright

 

Complex/Symbolic Coffee, 3:15 p.m., 105 Love Building

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

       Ettore Aldrovandi, SISSA, Italy

          From Teichmueller Spaces to Conformal Field Theory (and back) through Homology of Nerves

               We outline an explicit construction of some functional on quasi-conformal mappings associated to Conformal Field Theories on higher genus Riemann surfaces. Important tools are the combinatorics of nerves of coverings of the Riemann surface in question --- such as ordinary Cech, universal and Schottky coverings, and the resulting bicomplexes associated to those nerves, in particular the Deligne complexes.
The resulting functional is a section of a line bundle associated to the Earle-Eells fibration over the Teichmüller space.

 

Thursday: 19 November

 

Algebra Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building

       Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University

          Lie Algebras and Representation Theory

 

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

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

 

Biological Sciences Colloquium, 4:00 p.m., 228 Conradi Hall

       Pat Hurban, Paradigm Genetics, Inc

          Gene Expression Profiling of Drosophila Metamorphosis

               Pat's research centers around the use of cutting-edge microarray technology for the analysis of gene expression, and more generally for functional genomics and genome projects. It should be quite interesting and I hope you can all attend. This seminar is the 2nd in the "molecular biology series" for this and next year hosted by Area1 of the Biology Dept. for more info on Pat's talk, see http://www.fsu.edu/~biology/bionotes/98-11-09-hurban.html

 

Friday: 20 November

 

No Graduate Student Seminar, 12:20 p.m., 204 Love Building

 

Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building

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

       Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University

          Very Weak Solutions of Partial Differential Equations

               Although weak solutions of partial differential equations have been known for a long time, their usefulness in solving nonlinear equations still remains a source of many fascinating ideas. Many recent advances, especially in quasiconformal geometry (removability of singularities) and nonlinear elasticity (compensated compactness and integral estimates for Jacobians), depend on the so called very weak solutions of the governing PDEs. It is not our intention to give an account of all recent developments. We confine ourselves to nonlinear commutators of singular integrals as a tool to deal with estimates for very weak solutions. The interplay between PDEs and the cancellation phenomenon in the commutators is both illuminating and important for establishing the regularity properties of the solutions.

 

No Scientific Computing Seminar, 4:30 p.m., 200 Love Building

 

Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., 255 Fisher Lecture Hall

       David Draper, Johns Hopkins University

          Protein Recognition of a Conserved Ribosomal RNA Tertiary Structure

 

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

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