Department of Mathematics

The Florida State University

This Week in Mathematics

10-14 January 2000

Monday: 10 January 2000

Tuesday: 11 January 2000

Algebraic Schemes Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building

Organizational Meeting

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

Wednesday: 12 January 2000

Graduate Student Seminar, 1:15 p.m., 204B Love Building

Organizational Meeting

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

Warren Nichols, Florida State University

The Binomial Model for Option Pricing

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

Organizational Meeting

No Joint Applied Mathematics & Scientific Computing Seminar, 3:25 p.m., 104 Love Building

No Scientific Visualization Seminar, 3:30 p.m., 204B Love Building

Thursday: 13 January 2000 [ VETERAN'S DAY, no classes ]

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

QUANTUM! Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building

Phil Bowers, Florida State University

The Dirac Calculus: Two Impossible Equations Habilitated

Friday: 14 January 2000

Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., 101 Love Building

Jean-Paul Brasselet, Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy

Poincaré Duality and Toric Varieties

Toric varieties provide interesting examples due to their relation with combinatoric and algebraic geometry. In particular, in (co)degree 2, the Poincaré morphism can be interpreted in terms of divisors. Characteristic classes and intersection homology can also be computed explicitly, using the algebraic torus action on a toric variety. Examples of each situation will be given during the lecture.

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

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