T.W.I.G.S.
The "What Is ...?" Graduate Seminar


1:30 - 2:30, Room 1634, Lederle Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Thursday, October 22 Jenia Tevelev What is a moduli space?
Thursday, October 29 Jim Humphreys What is a nilpotent orbit? Abstract
Thursday, November 5 Tom Weston What is a Galois representation?
Friday, November 13 Paul Gunnells What is a modular form?
Thursday, November 19 HongKun Zhang What is a billiard?
Friday, December 4 Eduardo Cattani What is a hypergeometric function?
Thursday, December 10 Nathaniel Whitaker What is Tumor Angiogenesis and how might one model it?


T.W.I.G.S. meets Thursday or Friday afternoons (see schedule) in 1634 LGRT at the University of Massachusetts from 1:30 to 2:30.

Several years ago Farshid explained what is T.W.I.G.S. for.




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