Christopher Newport University

Mathematics Colloquium

Speaker: Tom Wears, Longwood University

Talk title: Invariants and Moving Frames

Abstract: In 1872, Felix Klein introduced his famed Erlangen program, where a geometry is defined on a space by specifying a group of geometric transformations (or symmetries) and the geometric properties of interest are those which remain invariant under the geometric transformations. Of primary focus are the properties of geometric objects such as curves surfaces which remain invariant under the group of transformations. In this talk we will introduce the notion of a differential invariant for geometrical objects and provide a brief overview of using the Moving Frame Method to identify and generate invariants.

Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 12:20pm to 1:20pm

Luter Hall, 372

Event Type

Academic

Group
Department of Mathematics
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