Talks 2018
Talks in the Department of Mathematical Sciences
IPFW Spring 2018
Colloquium: Bin Chen, Purdue University Northwest Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Convolutional Neural Network and its Applications, May 2, 2018.
- Abstract PDF
- IPFW Tegrity video link: (1 hr 5 min)
Colloquium: Drake Olejniczak, Western Michigan University, A Foray into Ramsey Theory, April 9, 2018.
Analysis Seminar: Martino Fassina, University of Illinois, Type conditions for CR manifolds, March 29, 2018.
ABSTRACT: Iterated commutators of complex vector fields were first studied by Kohn in the Seventies in his solution of the complex Laplacian. Using iterated commutators one obtains a natural measurement of the Levi degeneracy of a CR manifold. In this talk, building on work of Bloom, Bloom-Graham, and D'Angelo, we present partial answers to some old questions concerning this measurement. We also discuss the relation with the nowadays more standard algebraic notion of order of contact with complex varieties and with recent work of Zaitsev.
