Events for 10/03/2018 from all calendars
Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: BLOC 220
Speaker: Alan Reid, Rice University
Title: (Joint seminar with Groups and Dynamics Seminar) Distinguishing certain triangle groups by their finite quotients
Abstract: We prove that some arithmetic Fuchsian triangle groups are profinitely rigid in the sense that they are determined by their set of finite quotients amongst all finitely generated residually finite groups. These include the (2,3,8) triangle group.
AMUSE
Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: BLOC 220
Speaker: Dr. Iman Borazjani, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Title: Scientific computing: biofluids applications
Abstract: Computational tools can play a major role in driving discovery in many challenging problems facing society today. Nevertheless, biological application typically involve complex shapes, moving boundaries, fluid-structure interactions, pulsatile flows, and a wide range of scales, which is quite challenging even to the most advanced numerical techniques. In this talk, an overview of a numerical method that overcomes some of these challenges in presented. Then two specific examples in which scientific computing has led to solving real world problems and discovery will be discussed.