TETRAHEDRAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
ANNOUNCEMENT
DATE: Friday, November 2,
2007
LOCATION: Hempfield
High School, Room 213 (directions at http://www.millersville.edu/~tgts/)
followed by dinner at a place to be
determined.
4:30 TALK: Elizabeth
Sell,
“Geometric
and topological invariants of singularities”
Abstract: The study of singularities is at the
crossroads of several areas of mathematics,
including topology,
algebraic geometry, and analytic geometry. In this talk, I will give
a general
introduction to the study of isolated singularities in algebraic geometry. In
particular, I will
describe some of the geometric and topological invariants associated
to plane curve
singularities and normal surface singularities, and will conclude with a
description of my
work on surface singularities defined by an equation of the form
z^n=f(x,y). No prior knowledge of algebraic geometry is
necessary.
EVERYONE WELCOME
PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ANYONE
INTERESTED
The Tetrahedral Geometry/Topology Seminar is
sponsored jointly by