All Seminars & Colloquia
Title: Introduction to spectral sequences
Friday, 9/12/2014, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Speaker: Harpreet Bedi (GWU)
HOMFLY-PT Complexes in the Knot Floer Cube of Resolutions
Thursday, 6/26/2014, 6:15pm - 11:59pm
Speaker: Nathan Dowlin, Princeton University*
* the speaker is a graduate student visiting GW.
Knots in Washington XXXVIII: 30 years of the Jones polynomial
Friday, 5/9/2014, 7:00pm - Sunday, 5/11/2014, 11:59pm
Solved and Unsolved Problems From The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Friday, 5/9/2014, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Speaker: Neil J. A. Sloane, Mathematics Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
Abstract: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is a database of number sequences, which in its fiftieth year now contains nearly a quarter of a million entries. This talk will describe some of the highlights, including the toothpick sequence, curling numbers, ``lunar'' arithmetic, and some very unusual recurrences. There will be several unsolved problems, music, and a movie.
Energetic Variational Approaches: Onsager's Maximum Dissipation Principle, General Diffusion, Optimal Transport and Stochastic Integrals
Thursday, 4/24/2014, 8:00pm - 11:59pm
Speaker: Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University.
Tuesday, 4/22/2014, 8:00pm - 11:59pm
Title: Introduction to Yang-Baxter Homology
Abstract: Yang-Baxter operators have been used to construct link invariants such as Jones Polynomial, HOMFLYPT Polynomial, etc. In this talk, I will introduce Yang-Baxter homology recently discovered by Jozef Przytycki and Victoria Lebed. In particular, the theory is motivated from distributive homology and set-theoretical Yang-Baxter homology.