Student Presentations

All presentation will take place in MC 5046.  Each will be 30 minutes long with 15 minutes of break in between. 

Monday April 11

10:30-11am  Xiannan Li, Real algebraic manifolds (after John Nash)

4:30-5pm  Jutta Kopp, Simon Setzer and Vivian Tsui, Gauss-Bonnet Theorem

Friday April 15

9-9:30am  Dylan Chadsey, Cameron Christou and Akshay Sury, Differential Geometry in Catastrophe Theory

Break

12:45-1:15pm  Ryan Kerner, Visualization and Discussion of Exact Solutions to Einstein's Equations

1:30-2pm  Mark Prosser, Interpretation of Riemannian curvature, and curvature between space and time in Lorentzian Geometry

2:15-2:45pm  Denis Ilijanic, Integration of Vector Fields: Frobenius' Theorem

3-3:30pm  Lalit Jain and William Slofstra, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

3:45-4:15pm  Matthias Wapler, Fun with Kähler geometry: sigma models

4:30-5pm  William Donnelly, Cale Gibbard and Adeel Shaikh, Introduction to gauge theory

Monday April 18

10:30-11am  Chris Laporte and Kevin Whyte, Lie Derivatives and Killing Vector Fields

Lunch Break

12:45-1:15pm  Tor Myklebust and Filip Spacek, Stokes' Theorem, Part I

1:30-2pm  Yufang Hao and Liam McHugh-Russell, Stokes' Theorem, Part II

2:15-2:45pm  Iouri Khramtsov, Control theory over smooth manifolds

3-3:30pm  Michael Young, Fiber bundles and connections in physics

3:45-4:15pm  Matt Ellis, Gauss's soccer ball

4:30-5pm  Rebecca de Boer and John-Will Keating, Kerr metric and its space-time

5:15-5:45pm  Cory Fletcher, Isospectral Manifolds