Monday, October 12, 2015 (3:30 p.m. in Yost 102)
Title: Elastic Rods
Speaker: David Singer (Professor and Interim Chair, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: We generalize the notion of Euler elastic curve to Kirchhoff elastic rods. We determine the closed solutions of the rod equation in Euclidean space and discuss integrability.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: K-convexity (Part II)
Speaker: Stanislaw Szarek (Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: Let (gi) be a sequence of independent standard Gaussian random variables on some probability space, and let P be the orthogonal projection on the subspace generated by...