TETRAHEDRAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Friday, April 7, 2006

LOCATION: Hempfield High School, Room 213 (directions attached)

followed by dinner at a place to be determined.

5:00 TALK: Atish Bagchi, Community College of Philadelphia

“Quantum Mechanics as a Deformation of Classical Mechanics”

Abstract: The talk, which will be in the form of a survey, will describe how

developments in Physics, such as the transition from classical to quantum

mechanics, can be understood within the framework of deformation theory.

It will also sketch the manner in which the passage from classical mechanics

to relativistic mechanics can also be so understood. The principal idea

consists in thinking of certain fundamental physical constants, such as

Planck's constant, as varying parameters, with particular values of the

parameters describing possible 'universes'. The universe we happen to inhabit

corresponds to particular values of the varying parameters that lend themselves

to experimental determination.

EVERYONE WELCOME

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The Tetrahedral Geometry/Topology Seminar is sponsored jointly by

Elizabethtown College, Franklin & Marshall College, Lebanon Valley College and Millersville University.