CS/Math Seminar
The CS/Math Seminar for Fall 2009 will be held during the free period (from 12:15pm to 1:10pm) on Mondays in Room BSB 335 unless otherwise announced. Please send email to Dr. Suneeta Ramaswami (rsuneeta at camden dot rutgers dot edu) to be included in the seminar announcements mailing list. She will be coordinating the seminars during this academic year.
Titles/abstracts of talks will be posted as they become available.
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Benedetto Piccoli, Math department, Rutgers-Camden
Monday, October 5
From vehicular traffic to intelligent group motion
Abstract: The talk will review recent results on the use of pde modelling for vehicular traffic flow on road networks. Real data and large networks issues will be addressed. After briefly mentioning the adaptation of some ideas to data networks, we will pass to motion of intelligent groups.
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Marty Karel, Math department, Rutgers-Camden
Monday, October 26
From the cross-product in 3-space to PBW Theorem: a braided tale
Abstract: Starting with Jacobi's identity for the cross-product in 3-space, we intertwine several threads of history to present a personal view of the Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt Theorem, which relates computations using Lie algebra variables (subject to Jacobi's identity, as with the cross-product) and more familiar computations using associative variables. Along the way we meet a fourth author of PBW Theorem, some representations of the braid group, and some ideas from late twentieth century physics.