Tracy Payne
Department of Mathematics
Idaho State University
921 S. 8th Avenue
Stop 8085
Pocatello, Idaho 83209
208-282-3650 
payntrac@isu.edu

  

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The Geometry Seminar meets on Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. Talks are in the Math Department conference room (317 PSB) unless otherwised noted.  This semester we are reading the book "Introduction to Mobius Differential Geometry" by Udo Hertrich-Jeromin, as a continuation of last semester's topic of Lie sphere geometry.  (Supplemental texts are: "Lie Sphere Geometry" by Tom Cecil, "Projective and Cayley-Klein Geometries" by Onishchik and Sulanke, "Conformal Differential Geometry and its Generalizations" by Akivis and Goldberg, and  "Projective Differential Geometry Old and New: From Schwarzian Derivative to Cohomology of Diffeomorphism Groups" by Ovsienko and Tabachnikov.)

September 11
Conformal Maps
September 18
Weyl and Schouten Tensors
September 19
Gazillions of Isospectral Surfaces and the Sunada Condition
Ruth Gornet (colloquium, 3:30, PS317)
September 26 Conformal Flatness
October 2
No meeting - colloquium
October 9
October 16
October 23