College of Arts and Sciences
Analysis Seminar – Geoff Diestel, Texas A&M of Central Texas
227 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Determining Convex Bodies from Central Sections Abstract: Barker and Larman posed a problem which asks if a convex body in real n-space is uniquely determined by the volumes of its hyperplane sections supported by an internal compact convex set. A survey of some partial results along with the Minkowski uniqueness theorem are presented along
Undergraduate Math Tea
302 Gordon Palmer HallSeminar – Hristo Sendov, University of Western Ontario
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesEvery Calculus student is familiar with the classical Rolle’s theorem stating that if a real polynomial p satisfies p(−1) = p(1), then it has a critical point in (−1, 1). In 1934, L. Tschakaloff strengthened this result by finding a minimal interval, contained in (−1, 1), that holds a critical point of every real polynomial
Dissertation Defense – Noufe Aljahdaly
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSeminar – Nickolas Castro, University of California
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTrisections Diagrams for Smooth 4-manifolds Abstract: A trisection of a smooth, compact, oriented 4-manifold X is a decomposition of X into three diffeomorphic codimension 0 submanifolds which have certain nice intersection properties. This decomposition, which is a 4-dimensional analog of Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds, is known to exists for all smooth, compact 4-manifolds. There are
Seminar – Francesco Di Plinio, University of Virginia
227 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Sparse domination of singular integral operators. Abstract: Singular integral operators, which are a priori signed and non-local, can be dominated in norm, pointwise, or dually, by sparse averaging operators, which are in contrast positive and localized. The most striking consequence is that weighted norm inequalities for the singular integral follow from the corresponding, rather
Seminar – Samuel Lisi, University of Mississippi
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Constructions of symplectic fillings Abstract: Bourgeois constructed a family of contact structures on $M \times T^2$ if $M$ is contact, using Giroux's open book decomposition. We will see that these are very sensitive to the page of the open book, but less so to the monodromy. We will also see that many of these
WiSE Friday Night Opening Reception
Bryant Conference Center 240 Paul W Bryant Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTo welcome our attendees to the WiSE Symposium 2017 we will be hosting our opening reception at the prestigious Paul W. Bryant Museum. This FREE event will include an exclusive tour of the Bryant Museum, networking, entertainment, and an University of Alabama VIP Round Table Discussion. The University of Alabama WiSE 2017 Symposium is an
Women in Stem Experience Conference (WiSE)
Bryant Conference Center 240 Paul W Bryant Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe University of Alabama presents the 2017 Women in STEM Experience Symposium, March 4, 2017 Empowering You: The Future of WiSE Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African-American woman to go to space, will present the keynote address. The 2017 WiSE Symposium is hosted by the University's Office for Academic Affairs, the College of Arts and