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Igor Rivin’s talk at BIRS Workshop on Harmonic Analysis in Convex Geometry
Igor Rivin will be participating in a Banff Workshop on Harmonic Analysis in Convex Geometry. Rivin will speak on: Title: Asymptotic geometry of convex sets Abstract: I will talk about the “limit sets” convex sets of finite volume in hyperbolic space … Continue reading
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Louis Theran’s talk at UMass, Boston
On May 4, Louis Theran will speak in UMass Boston‘s Mathematics Colloquium. The talk is about: Title: Rigidity percolation in random frameworks, periodic framework, and applications Abstract: A framework is a structure made of fixed-length bars connected by universal joints with full … Continue reading
Seminar April 26 – Kusner and Roger
The Geometry-Topology Seminar concludes for the term with talks by Julien Roger of Rutgers and Rob Kusner of UMass, Amherst. Roger will speak on: Title: Quantum Teichmueller theory and conformal field theory Abstract: The aim of this talk is to investigate the … Continue reading
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Futer and Atkinson to speak at the Spring 2011 AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting
Chris Atkinson and Dave Futer will be speaking at the AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting. Futer will be giving two talks: Title: Slopes and colored Jones polynomials of adequate knots Abstract: Garoufalidis conjectured a relation between the boundary slopes of a knot … Continue reading
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Seminar April 12 – Thurston and Dunfield
On April 12th, the Geometry-Topology Seminar will Dylan Thurston from Barnard College, Columbia University and Nathan Dunfield of UIUC. Thurston will speak on: Title: Stress matrices and rigidity Abstract: When do the lengths of the edges of a straight-edge framework determine the … Continue reading
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Tagged Algorithms, Computational Topology, Knot Theory, Rigidity Theory
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Seminar April 6 – Anne Thomas
On April 6th, the Geometry-Topology Seminar will have a special “away” meeting at the Institute for Advanced Study. Anne Thomas of the University of Sydney will speak on: Title: Infinite generation of non-cocompact lattices on right-angled buildings Abstract: Let Gamma be a … Continue reading
Seminar March 29 – Ryan Blair
On March 29th, the Geometry-Topology Seminar will host Ryan Blair of the University of Pennsylvania. He will speak about: Title: Bridge Number and Conway Products Abstract: A well known theorem of Schubert tells us that the bridge number of knots is additive … Continue reading
PATCH Day March 17 – Hass and Vertesi
On March 17th, the Geometry Group will host PATCH, our joint seminar with Bryn Mawr, Haverford and UPenn. The two speakers were Joel Hass from UC Davis and Vera Vertesi from MIT. Hass will speak on: Title: Width invariants and … Continue reading
Louis Theran’s talk at Haverford
On March 14th, Louis Theran will speak at the Bi-College Mathematics Colloquium at Haverford College. Louis will talk about: Title: The rigidity transition in random graphs Abstract: As we add rigid bars between points in the plane, at what point … Continue reading
Seminar March 1 – Shiva Kasiviswanathan
The Geometry-Topology Seminar continues with Shiva Kasiviswanathan of IBM. As usual, the talk is at 3:30 in Wachman 617. Title: The Price of Privately Releasing Contingency Tables and the Spectra of Random Matrices with Correlated Rows Abstract: Contingency (marginal) tables … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Science, Learning Theory, Privacy, Random matrices
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