[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] seminar TODAY

[Ross Geoghegan]

                   BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR


   Date: Thursday April 29, 2010  

   Time:  2.50 pm

   Place: Library North 2205 followed by coffee/tea in the Anderson
          Reading Room.

   Speaker: Nils Baas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
   visiting Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)


   Title: New topological structures in the natural sciences 

   Abstract: 
   Networks are important tools in modeling in science and are built
   on pair interactions. But not all interactions can be reduced to
   pair interactions. I.ll illustrate this by Borromean and Brunnian
   structures from topology. Recently such structures have been discovered
   in several areas of science (chemistry, nuclear physics, ultracold gases).
   Topologically one may introduce higher order versions of these. Do
   these occur as well or can they be synthesized as new materials? What
   about biology and topology?


NOTE:  The seminar has a webpage where the semester's program is listed:

http://math.binghamton.edu/MATH/dept/topsem/index.html

It can also be linked from the Department's Home Page.