FALL 1998
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October 1:
Speaker:
Louis J. Billera, Cornell University.
Title:
Enumerating flags in polytopes
Abstract
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October 8:
Meeting with the Dean
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October 15:
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October 22:
Speaker:
TBA
Title:
TBA
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October 27: (This is a Tuesday)
Speaker:
Francisco Samaniego, University of California at Davis
Title:
The "Signature" of a coherent system and its application on comparing system
reliability.
Abstract
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November 5:
Speaker:
Min-Oo, McMaster University.
Title: Mass, scalar curvature and K-area
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November 12:
Speaker:
Paul Baum, Penn State University.
Title: Trees, Buildings, Symmetric Spaces, and K-theory for group
C* algebras.
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November 19:
Speaker:
Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University.
Title:
Automorphism of free groups and symmetries of outer space
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December 3:
Speaker:
Thomas Schick, Penn State University.
Title:
Which manifolds admit metrics with positive scalar curvature?
Subtitle:
A counterexample to the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture.
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December 10:
Speaker:
Seymour Lipschutz, Temple University.
Title:
On Pregroups and Semipregroups.