Colloquium – John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTopic: Curvature and contact topology Abstract: Contact geometry is a beautiful subject that has important interactions with topology in dimension three. In this talk I will give a brief introduction to contact geometry and discuss its interactions with Riemannian geometry. In particular I will discuss a contact geometry analog of the famous sphere theorem and
Applied Math Seminar – Shibin Dai (University of Alabama)
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Bilayers as Local Structures of the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard Functional Abstract: Amphiphilic structures such as cell membranes and lipid vesicles play essential roles in biological applications. In this talk, we will first introduce the functionalized Cahn-Hilliard (FCH) model for the free energy of amphiphilic mixtures. The FCH model admits local minimizers corresponding to amphiphilic bilayers,
Analysis Seminar – Arum Lee (University of Alabama)
227 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Definition of Weak Solution of Poisson Equation with Homogeneous Dirichlet Boundary Condition Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the ideas of weak derivatives, traces of Sobolev functions and the weak solution of Poisson equation. These definitions are the very basic but important definitions in PDE. This talk will explain the motivation behind these
Math Ed Seminar
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesAlgebra/Topology Seminar
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesApplied Math Seminar – Kyle Mandli (Columbia University)
Title of talk: Computational Challenges to Prediction and Mitigation of Coastal Hazards Abstract: Coastal flooding due to severe storms is one of the most widespread and damaging hazards faced around the world. The threat of these events has grown not only due to increased population and economic reliance on coastal regions but also due to
Pi Mu Epsilon Seminar – Kabe Moen (University of Alabama)
302 Gordon Palmer HallTitle: Chess and Math Abstract: In this talk we will cover some connections between the game of chess and mathematics. In particular we will answer some questions such as what is the longest game, how many games of chess are possible, how many positions after n moves. We will also go over constructional tasks and
Undergraduate Tea
302 Gordon Palmer HallAnalysis Seminar – Yuanzhen Shao, Georgia Southern University
227 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Some Applications of Singular Manifold Theory to Applied Mathematics Abstract: Many applications of applied sciences lead to differential equations with various types of singularities, including singularities of the geometry of the underlying space and singularities of the coefficients of the differential equations. The aim of this talk is to introduce the concept of singular manifolds, which can describe various kinds of singularities in a unified way, and then my recent work on the partial differential equation theory over singular manifolds will be presented. I will illustrate by several examples from applied mathematics how to use this theory to treat different types of singularities via a unified approach.