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Thursday, April 24, 2003
Monday, April 21, 2003
Friday, April 18, 2003
| Last SUMS Talk of The Year!!! |
(There are 2 more new announcements after this one. Please make sure that you read them too!)
Come and enjoy the last SUMS talk of the year! Niles Johnson - a graduating senior at UR - will talk about his honors thesis project! It is also the last chance of the year for you to get free pizza!
Niles Johnson
(UR graduating senior)
The Taylor Expansion of a Riemannian Metric
Abstract:
Every smooth Riemannian manifold has two functions associated with it:
the Riemannian metric and the curvature tensor. As with every
function, we can consider a formal Taylor expansion of the metric, and
our main result is a statement about terms in that Taylor expansion and
certain (covariant) derivatives of the curvature tensor. The most
interesting and exciting aspect of our work, however, is not the result
itself but the ideas involved in understanding the result. For this
reason, the talk will focus on describing the two concepts--metric and
curvature tensor--and giving an overview of the methods involved in the
work.
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Place: Hylan 901 (the Math Lounge)
Time: 7:00 PM
(FREE PIZZA at 6:45!)
At this meting, we will also be electing new officers for next year. If you would like to be a SUMS officer next ear, please email Professor Johnson at inga@math.rochester.edu.
Posted by Michael P. Knapp on 4/18/03; 2:53:01 PM
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| Math Department Diploma Ceremony |
Commencement 2003
Mathematics Department Diploma Ceremony
5/18/03 - 3:15 pm - Hoyt Hall
Reception following ceremony in Eisenberg Rotunda in Schlegel Hall
Parents Reception on Saturday, 5/17/03
9th Floor Lounge in Hylan at 3:30 pm
Any seniors who have not been contacted by the Math Department, please e-mail
Fran Crawford at: penster@math.rochester.edu.
Posted by Michael P. Knapp on 4/18/03; 2:34:39 PM
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| Talk at SUNY Geneseo Math Club |
Talk at SUNY Geneseo,
Carl Pomerance, Bell Laboratories
Thursday, May 1, 7 - 8p
Sturges 204, SUNY Geneso campus
A New Primal Screen
It is amazing that we are still finding new things about prime numbers, as old as Euclid, and new uses. In the past few decades we've used prime number both to protect Internet message from eavesdroppers and to do the completely opposite task of making communication so transparent that we can potentially talk with aliens from other worlds. Further, last August the mathematics and computer science communities were stunned with the announcement of a new and speedy screen for prime numbers. What is perhaps more stunning is that two of the three researchers had just received their bachelor's degrees in June. (Agrawal, Kayal and Saxena)
In this talk some of the principal ideas in the new test, and in the applications, will be described.
Bio: Carl Pomerance received his B.A. from Brown University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 under the direction of John Tate. During the period 1972-1999 he was a professor at the University of Georgia. Currently, he is a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and a Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia.
If someone is interested and needs to arrange a ride, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
--Mike
Posted by Michael Gage on 4/18/03; 8:24:20 AM
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