Dinner Meetings
The Northeastern Section Regional Dinner Meeting series has proven to be both popular and stimulating. There are several offered each spring, each in a different geographic part of the Section. To see some of the past Dinner Meetings, follow the link at the left.
Please contact Lucy Kimball, lkimball@bentley.edu , Coordinator of the Regional Dinner Meetings, if you would like to host a dinner meeting or for more information about the dinner meetings program.
2009 Dinner Meetings
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
The Sixteenth Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture
Paul A. Schweitzer, S. J.,
Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro
"Surfaces and 3-dimensional Manifolds:
How Geometry Comes to the Aid of Topology"
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Abstract: The talk will begin with a short outline of the classification of closed surfaces, their Euler characteristic and curvature of metrics, and how the metric can flow to a constant curvature metric. We next talk about 3-manifolds, their geometries and Thurston's geometrization conjecture. Finally, we consider the idea of Perelman's proof of the geometrization conjecture, with a flow making the geometry as homogeneous as possible, distributing the curvature equally. The mathematical details are lengthy and difficult, so we shall emphasize the intuitive ideas with pictures, rather than giving proofs.
5:30 pm: Appetizers and cash bar, Hogan Campus Center Suite B
6:15 pm: Dinner, Hogan Campus Center Suite B
8:00 pm: Lecture in Hogan Room 519
Choice of entrees: Poached Salmon, Chicken Picatta or Vegetarian
(Please indicate your choice when you send your check)
Price: $15.00
Make checks payable to: Holy Cross College
Send registration to:
Tom Cecil
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610-2395
email: cecil@mathcs.holycross.edu
phone: (508) 793-2719
Registration Deadline: March 16, 2009
Framingham State College, Framingham, Massachusetts
The Seventh Annual Kenneth J. Preskenis Dinner Meeting
Harrison "Chuck" Straley, Wheaton College
"Isaac Newton; A Dramatic Lecture"
Monday, April 6, 2009
Abstract: Isaac Newton is, perhaps, the greatest intellect and the most important person of the millennium. He was born while England convulsed in revolution, as Cromwell defeated the armies of King Charles I and The Treaty of Westphalia ended Europe’s Thirty Years War. Newton lived shortly after Fermat, Galileo, Kepler and others had made significant discoveries in mathematics and science. He built upon their work. Isaac Newton appears in period costume to discuss his difficult childhood and turbulent life. This dramatic lecture, accompanied by slides, is designed to stimulate interest in mathematics and science through drama and mathematics/science history.
6:00 pm: Reception with cash bar, Balcony, Faculty-Staff Dining Room,
Third Floor of D. Justin McCarthy College Center
6:30 pm: Dinner, Faculty-Staff Dining Room, Third Floor of D. Justin McCarthy College Center
8:00 pm: Presentation, Hemenway Hall 212
For complete information, please visit http://www.framingham.edu/math/Preskenis/Dinner/
Contact: Sarah Mabrouk, smabrouk@framingham.edu
Maintained by Tommy Ratliff tratliff@wheatoncollege.edu
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