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Next Mathematics Colloquium

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Dr. Peter Dragnev, Professor of Mathematics at Indiana University-Purdue University, will present a colloquium on  Electrons, buckyballs, and orifices: Nature’s way of minimizing energy.

Abstract:  The "uniform" distribution of many points on the unit sphere is a highly non-trivial problem with applications throughout the whole spectrum of modern science. Whether one studies electrons in equilibrium from Physics, large fullerene compounds from Chemistry, orifices of pollen grain from Biology, or data encoding from Computer Science, one arrives at spherical arrangements of points that minimize some energy functional. In this talk we shall make a short survey of the various problems in the literature and will focus on the separation properties of the extremal configurations and related minimal energy problems.


This colloquium will be held in 7800 York Road, Room 320 at 4:00 p.m., with light refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.

Previous 2012–2013 Mathematics Colloquium Talks


Date Topic Speaker
Feb 28, 2013 The Experimental Geometry Lab at the University of Maryland Dr. William Goldman
University of Maryland at College Park
Nov 15, 2012 Visual analytics for science and technology: STEM product development Dr. Timothy Akers & Dr. Kevin Peters Morgan State University
Oct 25, 2012 Elections with partially ordered preferences Dr. Peter Coughlin
University of Maryland at College Park
Apr 26, 2012 Symplectic toric varieties: The tale behind the logo of the 2012 Bridges Conference Dr. Alexander Munson
Towson University
Apr 5, 2012 Existence of periodic solutions of hybrid dynamical systems Dr. Thomas Seidman
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Mar 29, 2012 Finite reductive groups: Representations and liftings Dr. Joshua Lansky
American University


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