Welcome back, colloquium-goers! The Math/Stats colloquium resumes regular talks for the next six weeks, starting with talks from three of our new faculty members.
Speaking of which: This week, we are proud and excited to be hearing from our own Jordan Schettler, who will be talking about “Topology and Surrealism: Corpus Hypercubus Revisited”, the story of how the solution to a first-year graduate school topology homework problem showed up in a Salvador Dali painting! This talk will tell that story and, in the process, give an overview of some basic concepts in algebraic topology including cell complexes, the fundamental group, and covering spaces.
Background: All are welcome and encouraged to attend, but a familiarity with topology and/or art might help.
- Date: Wed Sep 23
- Time: 3-3:50pm
- Room: MH320
- Snacks: 2:30pm in MH331B
For more information, click here to see the full flyer, suitable for printing and posting.
Hope to see you there!
Upcoming events:
- Wed Sep 30: Matthew Johnston, SJSU
“Extinction and Persistence in Discrete Chemical Reaction Networks” - Wed Oct 07: Marion Campisi, SJSU
“Neighbors of Knots in the Gordian Graph”