Week of Events
Colloquium: Prof. Roger Howe
Mathematics around the Heisenberg Group Prof. Roger Howe Professor Emeritus Yale University In the mid 1920s, Werner Heisenberg formulated the CCR – canonical commutation relations – describing the relationship between the operations of measuring position and of measuring momentum of …
PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. William Braubach
Coarse Homotopy Extension Property and its Applications Mr. William Braubach University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A pair (X, A) has the homotopy extension property if any homotopy of A can be extended to a homotopy of X. The main goal of this …
Graduate Student Colloquium: Alex Moon
Counting Orbits of Defective Parking Functions Alex Moon PhD Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Parking functions are well-studied objects in combinatorics and representation theory which constitute tuples of preferred parking spots for cars under a linear parking scheme. This talk will …