Clavius Activities at Fairfield University Summer of 2012

Clavius Group at Fairfield University in 2012

List of Clavius Mathematicians

Jennifer Ackerman
Michael Ackerman
Tom Banchoff
Adam Bartoszek
Jacob Binoy SJ
John Blanton
Tom Cecil
Lawrence Conlon
Pedro Ferreira SJ
Margaret Freije
Richard Freije
Kathy Hall
James Heitsch
Michele Intermont
Ron Knill
Javier Leach SJ

Jack Lutts
Maura Mast
Michael May SJ
Sr Barbara Reynolds SDS
Patrick Ryan
Paul Schweitzer SJ
Dennis Snow
Joanne Snow
James Stasheff
William Stoeger SJ
Pedro Suarez SJ
Andrius Tamulis
Carlos Vasco
Julio Vidaurrazaga
Pawel Walczak
Andrew Whitman SJ

Invited Colleagues 2012

Martin Magid, Wellesley College
Oscar Perdomo, Central Connecticut State University
Sophie Sun, Wellesley College

Clavius Community Notes

2012 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Meeting #50: 24 June to 21 July

At the invitation of Fairfield University and its Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Clavius Group gathered at Fairfield University for its fiftieth session. Through the efforts of Matt Coleman (Department Chair), we were provided with offices and lecture rooms in the Bannow Science Center. We were housed in the Student Townhouse Complex. Community evening meals, daily Mass, social hours and faith discussions were held in the townhouses. This arrangement made it possible to continue our vibrant community life. The participants this summer consisted of six Jesuits, one Salvatorian sister, eight married couples, and three single lay persons. Nineteen Clavius mathematicians participated in the lectures and seminars along with several faculty members from Fairfield and other colleges and universities.

Faith Discussions 2012

July 2, Ministry to Catholics on college campuses, led by Lori Ryan Neale of Canadian Catholic Campus Ministry.
July 10, The situation of women religious vis-à-vis the Vatican, led by John Thiel, Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield.
July 16, Experiences with Christian Life Communities, led by Paul Schweitzer, Javier Leach, and Nelson Velandia of the Clavius Group.

Seminars 2012

Working Seminar on the Geometry of Physics

This seminar met regularly — Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Participants took turns lecturing.
Participants: Andrew Whitman, Nelson Velandia, John Lutts, Ron Knill, John Blanton, Carlos Vasco, Julio Vidaurrazaga.
Topic: Connections as treated in Theodore Frankel’s book, The Geometry of Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition.

Differential Geometry Seminar

June 29, July 2, 3: Thomas Cecil, Introduction to isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres.
July 5, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17: Patrick Ryan, Shape operators of Veronese, Segre and Plücker embeddings in CPⁿ.
July 6: Oscar Perdomo (Central Connecticut State University), A dynamic interpretation of helicoidal CMC surfaces in Euclidean space.
July 6: Maura Mast, Magnetic geodesics in 3-dimensional Heisenberg manifolds.
July 11: Oscar Perdomo, Complete and embedded hypersurfaces of space forms with two principal curvatures and constant mean curvature.
July 12: Martin Magid (Wellesley College), The Björling problem for timelike surfaces in R⁴.

Special Topics Seminar

July 3, 5: Paul Schweitzer, Classical invariants of Legendrian knots in R³ and the 3-torus T³.
July 5: Brendan Reynolds and Maeve Reynolds, The Handshake Problem.
July 11: Michael Ackerman, More on intersection graphs of semigroups.
July 11: Jennifer Ackerman, Reaching out to Community College students–anecdotal evidence that Math is Fun.
July 12: Paul Schweitzer, Realization of open manifolds as leaves of foliations.
July 12, 13: Carlos Vasco, Models and theories in mathematics and science.
July 13: Nelson Velandia, Gravitomagnetic clock effect for polar orbit of a spinning particle.
July 16: Javier Leach, Mathematics and other languages. Mathematical reasons and other reasons.
July 16: Barbara Reynolds, Functions with nice points of interest.
July 17: Jacob Binoy, Interfacing science and theology on a mathematical base.
July 17: Andrius Tamulis, The mathematics of Albrecht Durer.