Professor Adnan Khan will be talking about “Modeling the Transmission of COVID-19: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on Monday, 13 December 2021 at 4pm. This is in continuation of the seminars being held under the banner of “John Conway Spirited Seminar Series” by the Department of Mathematics at SBASSE, LUMS.

Please see seminar series link below for details on all sessions in this series:  

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Prof. Alexandru Dimca will be talking about 'On the Tjurina number of projective plane curves' in the next John Conway Spirited Seminar on Monday November 29 2021 at 4pm PKST via zoom.

To join, please use this Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97379855766    

About the Speaker: 

Prof. Alexandru Dimca is a distinguished mathematician in algebra, geometry and topology. He has written three important books in this field: Sheaves in Topology, Singularities and Topology of Hypersurfaces and Topics on real and complex singularities. He is currently associated with Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.

About the seminar: 

Prof.  Dimca will present on the Tjurina number of projective plane curves.  In this talk, he will overview the lower and upper bounds for the Tjurina number of projective plane curves. He will survey various new results in this area, as well as a number of open problems. He will also discuss the interesting case of line arrangements. 

Please see link below for details on the entire speaker series:        

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Prof. Gert-Martin Greuel is our next guest in the upcoming seminar in the John Conway Spirited Seminar Series organized by the Department of Mathematics, SBASSE, LUMS. The seminar is scheduled on November 22, 2021, at 4:00 PM PKT (Monday).

To attend, please join us via Zoom meeting link:  https://zoom.us/j/97379855766

About the Speaker: 

Prof. Gert-Martin Greuel’s main research interests are Singularity Theory, Computer Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Complex Analysis.

Gert-Martin Greuel was a distinguished senior professor at the University of Kaiserslautern until he retired in March 2015. As the long-standing director of the Mathematical research center Oberwolfach (MFO), he has shaped mathematics in Germany for the last decades. From 1993 on, Gert-Martin Greuel was head of the center for computational algebra at the University of Kaiserslautern. In 2002, he became director of the MFO until 2013. In 2010 he assumed the presidency of the European Research Centers on Mathematics. Since 2013, he has been a member of the “Executive Committee of the European Mathematical Society”. Together with others, Gert-Martin Greuel developed “Singular”, a computer algebra system for polynomial computations for applications in algebraic geometry, especially for the investigation of singularities. He is editor-in-chief of important journals, and he received a lot of awards for his scientific contributions. Since 2014, he has been a member of the HITS scientific advisory board. 

About the seminar:

Prof. Gert-Martin Greuel will present a seminar on ‘Semicontinuity for families of power series and applications to singularity invariants and computational algorithms.  In his talk, he will give an overview of semicontinuity for families of power series with applications to singularity invariants. 

Please see the enclosed poster, Abstract & the seminar series link below for details: https://sites.google.com/view/conway-spirited-math-seminars/home 

Dirk Frettlöh will be talking about ‘Unusual Normal Tilings’ on 15 November 2021 at 4pm. He is currently associated with the Universität Bielefeld, Germany. This seminar is being conducted by the Department of Mathematics at SBASSE LUMS. 

Prof. Dirk Frettlöh will present a seminar on Unusual Normal Tilings.  In this talk, he will overview the problem & the recent results of the weaker versions of the problem of tiling of the plane by pairwise incongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter, or the analogue of this problem for quadrangles, pentagons, or hexagons. He will also discuss the case in a normal tiling of the plane by convex hexagons and convex heptagons, how many heptagons can occur? 

Please join via Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97379855766    

About the Speaker: 

Prof. Dirk Frettlöh’s research interests are diverse, but essentially, they are covered by Discrete Mathematics, Algebra and Geometry. He is mainly interested in: 

• Tilings, Convex Polytopes 
• Symmetry Groups, Finitely Presented Groups 
• Hyperbolic Geometry 
• Graph Theory, Combinatorics 
• Selfsimilarity, Fractals 
• Model Sets, Diffraction 

He is also interested in Recreational and Entertaining Mathematics. 

Please see the seminar series link below for details,        

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Prof. Russ Woodroofe talks about “Algebra and Topology of Lattices of Subgroups” on November 08, 2021 at 4pm PKT.

Join via Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97379855766    

About the Speaker:  

Prof. Russ Woodroofe's main research areas mainly focus on geometric combinatorics, including its connections with group theory and commutative algebra.  

Please seminar series link below for details:     

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A PhD-Math Research Seminar is being organized on the 5th of November 2021, Friday between 2:30 and 3:30 PM PKST. The moderator of this event is Dr. Imran Anwar and the venue is 9-ICI Math/Physics Lab (SSE Building 1st Floor).

Our distinguished guest speaker is Professor Russ Woodroofe (University of Primorska, Slovenia) in the upcoming John Conway Spirited Mathematics Seminar Series. He will be talking about “Algebra and Topology of Lattices of Subgroups” on 8th November 2021 at 4:00 PM PKT (Monday) 

Join us via Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97379855766    

About the Speaker:  

His main research areas mainly focus on geometric combinatorics, including its connections with group theory and commutative algebra. Prof. Russ Woodroofe (University of Primorska, Slovenia) will present the lattice of subgroups of a solvable finite group. 

Please see the seminar series link below for details,

Dr. Sarmad Abbasi will be talking about “Hard-Ball Simulations and the Colliding Dots Animation” on 29 October 2021 at 3pm.

Please click on the Zoom link to join the session: https://lums-edu-pk.zoom.us/j/97438320644 

About the speaker:

Dr. Sarmad Abbasi was born in Khairpur Mir's, Sindh, and finished his 12th grade from Public School Hyderabad. He continued studying mathematics and theoretical computer science first at the University of Georgia and then at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, eventually obtaining a Ph. D in computer science. For the past twenty years, he has taught at various universities in Pakistan. He has been keenly interested in science, the philosophy of science, and its teaching. He is currently launching Math-Cat, a YouTube channel to promote mathematics and theoretical computer science. Dr. Sarmad is also affiliated with Educative, an EdTech company. During his spare time, he conducts original research in both mathematics and theoretical computer science. He reads philosophy and literature, and at times lectures about them. 

Moonshine began as a series of numerical coincidences connecting finite groups to modular forms but has since evolved into a rich theory that illuminates the underlying algebraic structures that these coincidences reflect.

In the first half of this talk, Dr. Maryam will give a brief history of moonshine, describe some of the existing examples of the phenomenon in the literature, and discuss how her work fits into the story. Later, she will showcase how to use the aforementioned instance of moonshine to shed light on objects central to current research in number theory.  

Please join via Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97379855766    

About the Speaker: 

Dr. Maryam Khaqan (Stockholm University, Sweden) has her research interests in modular forms, elliptic curves, and moonshine. She obtained her PhD from in 2021 from the Emory University under the supervision of John Duncan. She is more broadly interested in number theory, algebra, geometry, and mathematical physics.  Dr. Maryam Khaqan is also a LUMS alumni.

Please see seminar series link below for details,        

https://sites.google.com/view/conway-spirited-math-seminars/home       

Prof. Alicia Dickenstein will be talking about “Algebraic Geometry Tools in Systems Biology” on 25 October 2021 at 4pm PKST via Zoom. She is our esteemed speaker in the John Conway Spirited Seminar Series organized by the Department of Mathematics at SBASSE, LUMS. 

She will talk about some methods and concepts of algebraic geometry that are being used in recent years to analyze standard models in molecular biology. She will also discuss some of the mathematical challenges that arise from this application. 

Please join us virtually via zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97379855766      

About the speaker:  

Prof. Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires) is a 2019 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a prior Vice-president of the International Mathematical Union (2015–2018), and a 2015 recipient of The World Academy of Sciences prize. She is a recipient of the L'Oréal-Unesco International Awards For Women in Science-2021. 

Her research interests are focused on using Algebraic geometry and combinatorics to predict behaviors of biological systems without knowing precise parameters. She in conjunction with Mercedes Perez Milian has created a system called The MESSI System (named after the footballer, Lionel Messi) which stands for Modifications of the type-Enzyme-Substrate or Swap with Intermediates. This allows researchers to prove general results valid in certain network.

You can view the complete list of the John Conway Spirited Seminars Series here: https://sites.google.com/view/conway-spirited-math-seminars/home