The art exhibit showcased pieces from students of Magoffin High School in Salyersville, Ky., on storm stories that were a result of a tornado that struck the Salyersville area in March of 2012.
Title: Singularities in algebraic geometry: how many times does a polynomial vanish at a point?
Abstract: We all learn early on how to count the number of times a given number appears as a root of a polynomial in one variable. But for polynomials in several variables, the analogous question is much more interesting. The most naive generalization leads to the multiplicity of a singular point on an algebraic curve or hypersurface, and I will review this beautiful chapter of classical algebraic geometry. In recent years a more subtle invariant, defined via considerations of integrability, has come into prominence. I will conclude by discussing how this new invariant governs many analytic, arithmetic and geometric properties of a polynomial.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Shannon Bell described her recent book, Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice, as a project that gives voice to her subjects: women fighting against the environmental effects of coal mining in Appalachia.
A panel featuring diverse members of the legal profession and Lexington comunity discussing citizen's rights as they relate to law enforcement and recent events surrounding this topic.
Sponsored by the African American & Africana Studies Program and the UK College of Law Student Public Interest Foundation.
Free and open to the public.
The UK Appalachian Center welcomes Fran Ansley on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Ansley will screen and discuss the bilingual film Morristown: In the Air and Sun. This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the Village Branch Public Library at 2185 Versailles Rd., Lexington, KY.
Title: An Algebraic Approach to Systems Biology.
Abstract: This talk will present an algebraic perspective for modeling gene regulatory networks. Algebraic models can be represented by polynomials over finite fields. In this setting, several problems relevant to biology can be studied. For instance, the algebraic view has been successfully applied for the development of computational tools to determine the attractors of Boolean Networks, for network inference algorithms, and for the development of a theoretical framework for agent based models. In this talk, the algebraic perspective of discrete models will be applied for control problems. No background in mathematical biology will be assumed for this talk.
