Clavius activities at Holy Cross Summer of 2019
Clavius group at Holy Cross in 2019
List of Clavius mathematicians
| Jennifer Ackerman Michael Ackerman Tom Banchoff Adam Bartoszek Jacob Binoy SJ Tom Cecil Lawrence Conlon Pedro Ferreira SJ Margaret Freije Richard Freije Kathy Hall James Heitsch Michele Intermont Ron Knill |
Jack Lutts Maura Mast Michael May SJ Sr Barbara Reynolds SDS Patrick Ryan Paul Schweitzer SJ Dennis Snow Joanne Snow James Stasheff Pedro Suarez SJ Andrius Tamulis Carlos Vasco Nelson Velandia SJ Julio Vidaurrazaga Pawel Walczak |
Invited Colleagues 2019
Martin Magid, Wellesley College
Robert Ream, Clark University
Oscar Perdomo, Central Connecticut State University
Gideon Bahir-Maschler, Clark University
Mary Cronin, Boston College
Clavius Community Notes
2019 Holy Cross, Worcester,
Massachusetts
Meeting #57: 22 June to 6 July
At the invitation of the College of the Holy Cross and its Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Clavius group gathered at Holy Cross for its fifty-seventh session. We were provided with office space in Swords Hall and a lecture room in Smith Labs for our seminars and talks. Also, access to photocopying, printing services, email and the web was provided. The group’s housing arrangements and other needs were generously attended to by Chip O’Connor, Director of Conference Services at Holy Cross. Members were housed in the Figge apartment complex, an excellent arrangement that made it possible for us to continue our vibrant community life. As is customary, each day was concluded by Mass and a community meal. The participants this summer consisted of five Jesuits, one Salvatorian sister, six married couples and four single lay persons. Fifteen Clavius mathematicians participated in the lectures and seminars along with several faculty members from Holy Cross and other colleges and universities.
Community Activities 2019
June 26, Business meeting at which it was decided to hold the next Clavius meeting at Holy Cross, June 27-July 11, 2020 (a two-week period)
June 28, Ignatius Day celebration
July 4, Cookout at the Cecils’ home
Seminars 2019
Working Seminar in Differential Geometry
Meetings were held at 9:30 AM on each weekday.
Text Used: S. Sternberg: Curvature in Mathematics and Physics, Dover,
2012
Participants: Ron Knill, Pedro Suarez, Carlos Vasco,
Nelson Velandia and Julio Vidaurrázaga.
The work was an ongoing endeavor to understand the material. Most of the lecturing was done by Julio Vidaurrázaga with occasional help from Paul Schweitzer, Carlos Vasco and Nelson Velandia.
Differential Geometry Seminar
June 24, 25, 26, Patrick Ryan, Ruled CMC hypersurfaces
in nonflat complex space forms are minimal
June 27, Oscar Perdomo (Central Connecticut State University), Spectra of the
Laplace and Jacobi operators on rotational CMC hypersurfaces of spheres
June 27, Thomas Banchoff, Retirement Opportunities: Almost finished papers?
June 28, Robert Ream (Clark University), The Adjunction Inequality for
Weyl-Minimal Branched Immersions
July 1, Andrew Hwang (College of the Holy Cross), Equareal Surfaces
July 2, Martin Magid, (Wellesley College), Minimal surfaces in the product of
two dimensional space forms with the neutral Kaehler structure
July 3, Thomas Cecil, Cyclides of Dupin in 3-space
Topology and Foliations Seminar
June 24, Lawrence Conlon, Gabai’s foliations are
generically smooth: an overview
June 25, Lawrence Conlon, More details on the smoothability of Gabai’s
foliations
July 1, 2, Paul Schweitzer, The existence of Reeb components determined by a
vanishing cycle with invariant doublepoint set
Topics Seminar
June 24, Paul Schweitzer, The current relevance of the
thought of Teilhard de Chardin
June 25, Nelson Velandia, Scattering of uncharged particles in the field of two
extremely charged black holes
June 26, Cristina Ballantine (College of the Holy Cross), Almost Partition
Identities
June 26, John Little (College of the Holy Cross), The eclectic sources for the
discussion of areas of plane figures in Book IV of Clavius’ “Geometria
Practica”
June 27, Ellen Ryan (McMaster University) and Mary Cronin (Boston College),
Passing on our legacy through stories: Why, What, How
June 28, Maura Mast, Developing leadership for Jesuit higher education: the
Ignatian Colleagues Program
June 28, Carlos Vasco, Where Gauss slipped: The Detrimental Theorem of Algebra
July 1, David Damiano (College of the Holy Cross), Non-Negative matrix
factorization: Introduction and Application
July 2, Binoy Jacob,
1) Messaging to extraterrestrials: An Indian perspective
2) Update of the peace activities of the Institute
July 3, Barbara Reynolds, The story of an unintended sabbatical: Bridging
cultures, languages, disciplines … while engaging in some Mathematics, too!
July 3, Carlos Vasco, Where Galois slipped: The dis-solubility of the insoluble
general quintic equation