2019 Gentry Lectures Dr. Kenneth A. Ribet University of California – Berkeley November 20 & 21, 2019 “What did Sophie Do?” November 20, 2019 Kulynych Auditorium Porter Byrum Welcome Center – 5:30 pm I will speak about Sophie Germain, a mathematician who was born on April Fools’ Day, 1776, and…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Veronica Ciocanel The Ohio State University Thursday, October 31st, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Ring channels are structures made of linked protein polymers (filaments) that are important in development, wound healing, and cell division. In the reproductive system of…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Yan Zhang Davidson College Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: We present a general formula describing the joint distribution of two permutation statistics—the peak number and the descent number—over any set of permutations whose quasisymmetric generating function…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents John Holmes Wake Forest University Thursday, September 26th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Nonlinear PDEs are difficult to solve explicitly. Therefore, mathematicians are interested in discovering properties about the solutions, by using and developing analytical techniques. The first questions…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Luigi Ferraro Wake Forest University Thursday, September 19th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Group actions are ubiquitous in mathematics. To study an algebraic object it is often useful to understand what groups act on it. A major role in…
