2019-2020 Colloquia
Title: Cayley Hash functions and Open problems
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Time: 12:30pm—1:30pm
Room: S-213
Speaker: Dr. Bianca Sosnovski
Refreshments will be served
Abstract
Title: Asymptotic Plateau Problem for two contours in hyperbolic 3-space
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Time: 12:30pm—1:30pm
Room: S-213
Speaker: Dr. Biao Wang
Refreshments will be served
Abstract
Title: Rmarkdown and Other Productivity Tools for Math Teachers
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time: 12:10pm—1:00pm
Room: S-220
Speaker: Dr. Fei Ye
Refreshments will be served
Abstract
Title: From Classical Mechanics to Symplectic Geometry
Date: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
Time: 12:30pm—1:30pm
Room: S-213
Speaker: Dr. David Pham
Refreshments will be served
Abstract
This talk is a basic introduction to some of the mathematical ideas coming from classical mechanics and how these ideas generalize in symplectic geometry. The physics needed for this talk is minimal; the only physics one needs is Newton’s second law (F=ma), momentum, and potential energy. In the first half of this talk, I will review the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics. In the second half of this talk, I show how the Hamiltonian formulation has a more geometric flavor to it and generalizes to differential geometry. The result is symplectic geometry. Hence, classical mechanics serves as early motivation or inspiration for symplectic geometry. I will conclude the talk with a brief discussion of an open problem at the intersection of symplectic and complex geometry.
