Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
The University of Melbourne,
Parkville, VIC 3052,
Australia.
Contact Person:
Robert Sinclair.
E-mail: R.Sinclair@ms.unimelb.edu.au
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Speaker: Peter Brinkmann,
University of Illinois
Title: Computational Aspects of Surface Homeomorphisms
Where: Room 107, Richard Berry Building, The University of Melbourne
When: 3:15pm, Wednesday, 18th September (2002)
I will talk about XTrain, a software package for computer experiments with surface homeomorphisms, as well as some of the work that was motivated or supported by experiments with XTrain.
Speaker: Professor
Morwen Thistlethwaite,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Title: Computational Methods in Knot Theory
Where: Theatre A, Richard Berry Building, The University of Melbourne
When: 11:00am, Thursday, 30th January (2003)
The task of enumerating and classifying links constitutes a good apprenticeship in knot theory. Various techniques and invariants are presented, and their relative strengths discussed.
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