FALL 2022

 

Thursday, 20 Oct and 27 Oct, 2pm  

Mostak Ahammed

How to deal with multiple research outcomes?  

Video
Abstract

Fall 2022

Part 1: Thursday 6 Oct  (2pm)

Part 2: Thursday 13 Oct

K. V. Shajesh

Schwinger's unitary operator bases
(quaternions, octonions, and beyond)

Recording of Part 1 
Recording of Part 2

Fall 2022

 

Raghu Raghavan

Physical models for brain cortical growth and Lie algebras

Part 1:  Thursday, 22 Sep, 2pm
See the abstract.

Part 2:  Thursday 29 Sep, 2pm
See the updated abstract.

Here are the videos:  Part 1 and Part 2.
You may also download Raghu's papers (zipped).
[Will keep them here for a couple of weeks].

Both meetings may be viewed by Zoom (see the link at the top of the page).  But you are invited to Neckers 356 for a group participation (coffee, cookies or/and sweets)

Fall 2022

1, 8, and 15 Sep 2022

Jerzy (Jurek) Kocik

On the classification of Clifford algebras

Thursday, 2pm, Neckers 356

Spring 2022

From NewYorker

   28 April, 2pm

   Mohammad Sayeh

   Nietzsche, Descartes, and
   other demonizers in science

Spring 2022

7, 14, 21April

Jerzy (Jurek ) Kocik

A case of experimental mathematics

Spring 2022

 

24 March

Mohammad Sayeh

Associative memory
(Part 3)

VIDEO 1 ,  VIDEO 2 ,  VIDEO 3

Via zoom; the link is given above.

SPRING 2022

 

17 Feb and 3 Mar

K. V. Shajesh

Eigenvalues of Maxwell field tensor
VIDEO 1  and VIDEO 2

Spring 2022

27 Jan  and 10 Feb
(to be continued...)

Mohammad Sayeh

Associative memory

VIDEO 1 and VIDEO 2 

Via zoom; the link is given above.

Image from https://www.hrl.com/news/
2019/05/30/hrls-sparse-associative-memory
-emulates-a-major-function-of-the-brain

Spring/Summer 2021

 

Enjoy the break!

The seminar will resume
this summer at a later time.

SPRING 2021

   29 Apr 2021

   Jerzy Kocik

  Lie algebra in graphical language
  for pedestrians
  (with a tinge of category theory)

  [video]

Remark on summation convetion:  When an expression has a repeated index, once as a superscript and once as a subscript, the summation over this index is implied, for instance $$A^j_iv^i \equiv \sum_iA^j_iv^i$$  I forgot to mention it at the beginning of the talk.

SPRING 2021

22 Apr 2021

Derek Hostalek 

Blockchain Math without Speculation

[Video]

Derek suggests these sources:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf 
https://www.egr.msu.edu/~renjian/pubs/Bitcoin_Profitability.pdf 
https://www.blockchain.com