Clavius Activities at Loyola University Maryland Summer of 2013

Clavius Group at Loyola University Maryland in 2013

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
Nelson Velandia SJ
Julio Vidaurrazaga
Pawel Walczak
Andrew Whitman SJ

Invited Colleagues 2013

Ricardo Martins Campos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Thomas Kiley, George Mason University

Clavius Community Notes

2013 Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Meeting #51: 22 June to 20 July

At the invitation of Loyola University Maryland and its Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Clavius group held its fifty-first session there in 2013. Through the efforts of Dipa Sarkar-Dey (Department Chair), we were provided with offices and a small seminar room in Knott Hall. Larger lectures were held in the Donnelly Science Center 151. Thanks to Mary Jo Stricker in Event Services, we were housed in the Lange Court complex. The kitchen connected to the court’s lounge was used for preparation of the evening meals. The lounge was used for daily Mass, for meals, and as a meeting room for social hours and faith discussions. This arrangement facilitated continuation of our vibrant community life. The participants this summer consisted of five Jesuits, eight married couples, and three additional lay persons. Sixteen Clavius mathematicians participated in the lectures and seminars along with several faculty members from Loyola and other universities.

Special Events 2013

July 3, Liturgy of Reconciliation
July 4, Non-mathematicians’ Forum
July 10, Ignatian Spiritual Exercises

Seminars 2013

Working Seminar on the Geometry of Physics

This seminar met regularly in KH305 — Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Participants took turns lecturing.
Participants: Nelson Velandia, John Lutts, Ron Knill, John Blanton, Carlos Vasco, Julio Vidaurrazaga, Thomas Banchoff.
Topics from Curvature in Mathematics and Physics, by S.Sternberg, Dover, 2012.
Principal lecturers: Julio Vidaurrazaga, Thomas Banchoff.

Differential Geometry Seminar

June 25, 27, 28, July 1, 3, 5: Thomas Cecil, Isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres.
July 8, 9, 11, 12: Patrick Ryan, Construction of Type E homogeneous hypersurfaces in complex projective space.
July 15: Thomas Banchoff, Folds, intersections and inflections: distinguishing Möbius bands from cylinders.
July 16: Maura Mast, Magnetic Heisenberg manifolds.

Special Topics Seminar

June 25: Thomas Banchoff, Piecewise circular space curves: a promotion.
June 26: Larry Conlon, Hyperbolic geometry and homotopic homeomorphisms of surfaces.
June 26: James Heitsch, The higher harmonic signature for foliations.
June 27, Larry Conlon, Endperiodic maps of surfaces after Handel and Miller.
June 27: Paul Schweitzer, Riemannian manifolds not quasi-isometric to leaves.
June 28: Ricardo Martins Campos (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro), Estimating extreme waves in the South Atlantic Ocean using regional frequency analysis and wave model hindcast data.
July 3: Javier Leach, Why do we continue doing science?
July 3: Carlos Vasco, Relations, operations, static and dynamic systems: a model-theoretic perspective.
July 5: Jacob Binoy, Fuzzy logical explanation of critical realism in Science-Theology dialogue.
July 8: Thomas Kiley (George Mason University), Does closer imply faster?–a problem from astronomy.
July 9, 16: Nelson Velandia, Spinning test particles orbiting the Kerr black hole in polar orbits.
July 11: Carlos Vasco, A very general definition of definite integrals: a model-theoretic perspective.
July 11: Paul Schweitzer, Roger Penrose’s book The Large, the Small and the Human Mind: a short presentation of some of the ideas relating computability, quantum mechanics , and consciousness.
July 12: Javier Leach, Taking options and decisions.
July 12: Carlos Vasco, A model-theoretic perspective in mathematics, philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education.
July 15: Frank R. Haig, SJ (Loyola University Maryland), Extraterrestrial life.
July 16: Maura Mast, Discussion on Catholic higher education in the US.