Friday, April 10, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: From the Jones Polynomial to Khovanov Homotopy
Speaker: Robert Lipschitz (Associate Professor, Columbia University Department of Mathematics)
Abstract: We will start by introducing some basic questions in knot theory. We will then talk about the Jones polynomial, a knot invariant from the 1980's, and how it lets...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Channel Capacity of Biological Signal Transduction Systems
Speaker: Peter Thomas (Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics)
Abstract: Shannon's mathematical theory of communication quantifies the information that can be transmitted by a given communication channel. Biological signal transduction systems operate through a coupled ensemble...