Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Talks for the week September 22-26, 2008 (previous week)
Introduction to Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Quantum Information Paradox  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 22, 2008
Time 10:00 am - 10:50 am CDT
Where G4 of the Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Mr. Gordon Stangler
Sponsored by Mathematics & Statistics Department
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description A historical overview of black holes is created, from Newtonian times to current events, with an overview of the pertinent physicists, and their mathematics. Black hole thermodynamics will be developed by following the work of Bekenstein and Hawking, and the impact their work has on contemporary physics, as well as attempts to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity.

This will NOT be a math intensive lecture.
Graduate Student Seminar  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 22, 2008
Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT
Where Room G-5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Black Hole Singularities and Quantum Tunneling  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Time 10:00 am - 10:50 am CDT
Where G4 in the Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Mr. Gordon Stangler
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description The Quantum Information Paradox will be re-examined via black holes as finite quantum wells, and its implications for information conservation. Time permitting, black hole perturbations in general relativity will be examined, as well as multidimensional black holes; for both integer and fractal dimensions.
Time Scales Seminar: "On a discrete normal distribution"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Time 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm CDT
Where Room G-5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Thomas Matthews
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Martin Bohner
More http://web.mst.edu/~bohner/seminar/ts.html
Topology/Algebra Seminar: "Intro to Homotopy"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT
Where Room G-4 Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Christopher Jacobsen
Sponsored by Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Robert Roe
Description Seminar discusses homotopies and how they can be used to determine when some topological spaces are non-homeomorphic.
Colloquium: "Scattering theory for Jacobi operators with quasi-periodic background and applications to the Toda hierarchy"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Friday, September 26, 2008
Time 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm CDT
Where Room G-5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Johanna Michor from the Courant Institute in New York
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Colloquium Chair: Martin Bohner / Faculty Host: Stephen Clark
Description Jacobi operators, which can be viewed as the discrete analogue of Sturm-Liouville operators, play a fundamental role in the investigation of completely integrable nonlinear lattices, in particular, the Toda lattice. A scattering theory will be developed for Jacobi operators which are short range perturbations of (steplike) quasi-periodic finite-gap background operators via the Gel'fand-Levitan-Marchenko approach. Minimal scattering data which determine the perturbed operator uniquely will be presented. This will solve the associated initial value problem of the Toda hierarchy via the inverse scattering transform. This talk is based on joint work with Iryna Egorova (Kharkov) and Gerald Teschl (Vienna).
More http://web.mst.edu/~bohner/seminar/Fall2008/Colloquia.html