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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Number Theory
1:00 pm   in 241 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, September 23, 2010
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 Joseph Vandehey (UIUC)Information, probability, and randomness in even and odd continued fractionsAbstract: Ustinov gave a wonderful, short solution to the following problem: given a random irrational x and its sequence of continued fraction convergents $p_n/q_n$, along with a large $R >0$, what is the probability that the first time $q_n > R$ the continued fraction digits $a_{n-k},a_{n-k+1},\ldots,a_{n+k}$ all take some given values? We will present the solution to the more complicated case of even continued fractions and odd continued fractions. This talk is based on joint research with Florin Boca done for this summer's REGS.

Joint Group Theory/Differential Geometry Seminar
1:00 pm   in 347 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, September 23, 2010
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 Chris Leininger (UIUC Math)Right-angled Artin subgroups of the mapping class groupAbstract: I'll talk about coarse geometric properties of Right-angled Artin subgroups of the mapping class group. This is joint work with Matt Clay and Johanna Mangahas.

Commutative Algebra Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, September 23, 2010
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 Hal Schenck (UIUC)Euler characteristic of line bundles on simplicial torics via the Stanley-Reisner ringAbstract: We combine work of Cox on the homogeneous coordinate ring of a toric variety and results of Eisenbud-Mustata-Stillman and Mustata on cohomology of toric and monomial ideals to obtain a simple formula for computing $\chi(\mathcal&ob;O&cb;_X(D))$ for a divisor $D$ on a complete simplicial toric variety $X_&ob;\Sigma&cb;$. The main point is to use Alexander duality to pass from the toric irrelevant ideal, which appears in the computation of $\chi(\mathcal&ob;O&cb;_X(D))$, to the Stanley-Reisner ideal of $\Sigma$, which is used in defining the Chow ring of \$X_\Sigma&.

Mathematics Colloquium
4:00 pm   in 245 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, September 23, 2010
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 Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington)Archimedes' principle for Brownian liquidAbstract: I will present a mathematical model illustrating Archimedes' principle. The model is not quite realistic but, surprisingly, there seem to be no earlier rigorous results on Archimedes' principle in mathematical literature. The same mathematical model illustrates two other physical phenomena -- the formation of liquid surface and centrifuge effect. The two main mathematical techniques used in this project are the Dirichlet form approach to reflected Brownian motion and sphere packing. Joint work with Zhenqing Chen and Soumik Pal.