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
Pi Mu Epsilon Meeting
302 Gordon Palmer HallPi Mu Epsilon Undergraduate Talk – Thomas Mark, University of Virginia
Polynomial Convexity and a Nonlinear Triangle Inequality Abstract: A subset of the plane is called convex if the line segment joining any two of its points also lies in the set. The “convex hull” of a set is the smallest convex set containing the given one. I’ll describe how convexity can be interpreted in terms of
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
Dissertation Defense – Erin Watley
302 Gordon Palmer HallThesis Defense – David Lass
302 Gordon Palmer HallDissertation Defense – Bryan Sandor
302 Gordon Palmer HallDissertation Defense – Cong Hoang
302 Gordon Palmer HallColloquium – Benjamin Seibold, Temple University
302 Gordon Palmer HallTitle: Phantom Traffic Jams, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Traffic Modelling Abstract: Initially homogeneous vehicular traffic flow can become inhomogeneous even in the absence of obstacles. In this "phantom traffic jam'' phenomenon, small perturbations grow into traffic waves, called “jamitons”. Via the mathematical analysis of traffic models, we demonstrate that phantom jams can arise from