Thursday, March 24, 2016 (10:00 a.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Rademacher Sums, Hecke Operators, and Moonshine
Student: Paul Bruno
Advisor: John Duncan (Assistant Professor, Emory University)
Committee Members: David Singer, Elisabeth Werner, and Colin McLarty (Philosophy)
Abstract: In this talk, we analyze the actions of Hecke operators on Rademacher sums. To investigate the problem, we consider...
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Friday, March 25, 2016 (4:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: The Surface Area Deviation of the Euclidean Ball and a Polytope
Student: Steven Hoehner
Advisor: Elisabeth Werner (Professor, Case Western Reserve University)
Committee Members: Harsh Mathur (CWRU Physics), Carsten Schuett (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel), Wojbor Woyczynski (CWRU MAMS)
Abstract: The approximation of convex bodies by polytopes has numerous applications...