Dartmouth Math Colloquia for Fall Term, 1997

Seminars are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in room 102, Bradley Hall.

Follow the links to get abstracts.

September 25	Eric Weinstein, MIT The practical side of 'pure mathematics': How differential geometry can save the U.S. government 40 billion dollars a year.
October 2	Efton Park, TCU Isometries of Noncommutative Metric Spaces
October 9	Paul Muhly, Iowa Reflections on Filtered Algebras
October 16	Richard Laubenbacher, NMSU The Combinatorics of Simplicial Complexes and Applications to Complex Decision Networks
October 23	Huai-Dong Cao Ricci Flow on Kähler Manifolds
October 30	John Oprea, Cleaveland State Algebraic Topology and the Arnold Conjecture
November 6	Richard Holmes, HIM&R, Inc. Four Vignettes from Mathematical Finance
November 13	Chris Allday, U. Hawaii Geometry versus topology in the study of symplectic group actions
November 20	Joe Bonin, GWU Recent Results in External Matroid Theory