Department of Mathematics

The Florida State University

This Week in Mathematics

5 - 9 April 1999

Monday: 5 April 1999

No Graduate Student Seminar, 1:30 p.m., 204B Love Building

1st Annual Mathematics Honors Day, 3:30 p.m., 102 Love Building
Goodner TA Awards followed by Pi Mu Epsilon Induction

Donald Foss, Florida State University

Measuring Mentation: A Look at Listening to Language

Your eyes move when you read, and we can learn some things about what is happening during reading by measuring those movements. But your ears don't move when you listen; you just sit there. How, then, can we measure what is happening during auditory language comprehension, the most natural way we comprehend? Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience permit us noninvasively to observe some brain activity during listening comprehension, but the temporal resolving power of those techniques is inadequate--in other words, comprehension is fast and the brain imaging techniques are (so far) just too slow. In this talk I will discuss these problems and describe measurement techniques, some of which were devised in my laboratory, that can get at auditory comprehension while it is happening--some ways of measuring mentation.

Reception Following in 204 Love Building

Tuesday: 6 April 1999

Algebraic Geometry Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 102 Love Building

, speaker to be announced

Riemann-Roch I

Applied Topology Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building

Irma Cruz-Rodriguez, Florida State University

The Topology of Spiral Waves, II

Wednesday: 7 April 1999

(Real) Analysis Seminar, 2:30 p.m., 201 Love Building

Reading through “Oscillatory Integrals with Polynomial Phases” by Phong and Stein

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

Bernard Deconinck, MSRI

The KP Equation with Quasiperiodic Initial Data

The Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation is interesting because (1) It is of physical importance, (2) It is completely integrable and (3) It is intimately connected with the theory of Riemann surfaces. In this talk I will use this connection with Riemann surfaces to solve the initial value problem for the KP equation with quasiperiodic initial data.

Thursday: 8 April 1999

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

Angela Vierling, Florida State University

Resolving Singularities of Curves

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

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

FSU Math Society Meeting, 5:00 p.m., 204 Love Building

Joseph Cain, GFDI, Florida State University

Disasters from Outer Space - An Asteroid or Comet could Ruin your Day!

A description of the Tunguska strike and the likelihood and severity of future encounters with asteroids and comets.
   Afterward the opportunity to talk informally with the speaker and other attendees will be available.

Refreshments (including pizza!) will be provided

Friday: 9 April 1999

No Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
No Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., 101 Love Building

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

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

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