Spring 2023

Thursday, 23 Feb

Annie Yojaira

Micropatterning with sugar
(on surfaces, curvatures, and nanoscales)

2pm, Neckers 356

Video

Spring 2023

Thursday, 2 Feb -- part 1
Thursday, 9 Feb -- part 2

Thursday, 16 Feb -- part 3 

Mathew Gluck

From the isoperimetric inequality to scalar-flat Riemannian metrics

Neckers 356, 2pm

Abstract:  We shall discuss whether a given compact Riemannian manifold can be deformed in an angle-preserving way to achieve constant scalar curvature (so-called Yamabe's problem).

Part 2 -- video

Part 3 -- video

Fall 2022

8 Dec, Thursday, 2pm 

Jerzy Kocik

On spin and spinors

Fall 2022

 

17 Nov and 1 Dec

Jerzy Kocik

On French cafés, invariants, Cauchy formula, permutations, generalized determinants, and a Fock space.

[Neckers 356, 2pm]

Video of Part 1 - very bad sound

Fall 2022

 10 November

 Charith Atapattu and Kalpa Madhava

Octonionic calculations with Python

Video

Additional links:

pyOctonion Code in Github Repository,

• https://github.com/charithsiu/pyoctonion/blob/master/pyoctonion/Pyoctonion.py
  

Pypi repository code where you upload the package to install using “pip” in python,

• https://pypi.org/project/pyoctonion/

Library documentation,

• https://github.com/charithsiu/pyoctonion/blob/master/README.md

Fall 2022

Image credit: Shutterstock

   Thursday, 3 November  

  Conversations on time
   -- relativity and its "paradoxes" 

   Questions, answers, discussion.
   Planned to help Paul Utsler 
   from the media department
   to make a documentary
   on this subject 

    [diagram]

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