Colloquium – Professor David Gay (University of Georgia)
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States**Refreshments will be served at 10:30 a.m. in 301 GP** The presentation will begin at 11:00 a.m. in 346 Gordon Palmer Hall Title: Smooth automorphisms of the 4‐dimensional sphere Abstract: This is a talk about smooth 4‐dimensional topology, in which the objects are smooth 4‐manifolds (spaces locally like R^4 equipped with the ability to do
Applied Math Seminar – Qiliang Wu (Ohio University)
ZoomTitle: Pearling and Localized Undulation of Bilayers in Amphiphilic Morphology Abstract: Amphiphiles, such as lipids and functionalized polymers, plays a central role in the self-assembly of solvent accessible, intricately structured nano-scaled network structures, which are vital in cell functionality and offer wide applications to drug delivery, detergent production, emulsion stabilization and energy conversion devices. We
Colloquium – David Wright, Washington University St. Louis
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: A Survey of the Illustrious Jacobian Conjecture Abstract: The celebrated Jacobian Conjecture asserts: Let F be a polynomial map from C^n to C^n. If the jacobian determinant of F is everywhere non-vanishing, then F is a polynomial automorphism. This conjecture, now 82 years old and still unsolved for n>1, can be viewed as a
Algebra/Topology Seminar – Fraser Binns (Boston College)
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Some Link Detection ResultsAbstract: A central question in low dimensional topology is; how can we distinguish links? In this talk I will discuss various classical invariants which can help us do so, as well as the stronger invariant Knot Floer homology and, time permitting, annular Khovanov homology. Indeed, we will see that these latter
AWM Lunch and Learn
230 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, AL, United StatesSymplectic topology of Brieskorn singularities – Cagri Karakurt (Bogazici University)
ZoomAbstract: Cagri will talk about some symplectic/contact topological aspects of Brieskorn singularities $x^p+y^q+z^r=0$. He’ll tell how to draw the surgery diagrams of their canonical contact structures and prove that the Milnor fiber $M(p,q,r)$ symplectically embeds into $M(p’,q’,r’)$ whenever $p\leq p’$, $q\leq q’$, and $r\leq r’$ by explicitly constructing a Stein cobordism between corresponding canonical contact
Colloquium – Shigui Ruan (University of Miami)
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesColloquium – Shigui Ruan, University of Miami
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesApplied Math Seminar – Joe Renzi (UA Grad Student)
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTITLE: A Discussion of Variational Models for Phase Transitions Abstract: Variational models are an important way of describing many different phenomena. In this talk, we'll first provide motivation for a variational model for phase transitions and discuss some of its properties. We will then describe how this phase model relates to other variational models.
Pi Mu Epsilon Induction
301 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe Alabama Alpha Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society, will induct new members on April 14, 2022. New members being inducted this year are: Bray, Mason Connor Cardinale, Leonardo Dante Choudhary, Girith Christian, Brent Estreicher, Samuel Ben Foes, Isabella Follmer-Burnett, Haley Noele Han, Seongjune Hankins, Andrew Cole Harbison, Kathryn Elena Hill,