Algebra Seminar
Spring 2008
Fridays, 2:00-2:50 pm
Alavi Commons Room
6th floor, Everett Tower

Upcoming on April 18:

Mr. Ben Phillips, WMU

presents

Cyclic polygons with rational area and sides


Abstract.

A cyclic polygon is any polygon which can be inscribed in a circle. In particular, all triangles are cyclic. In this talk we shall present some known results about cyclic polygons which have rational (or integer) sides and area. In particular, we shall discuss Heron Triangles, Brahmagupta Quadrilaterals, and Robbins Polygons.










Past Seminars:

Date
Speaker
Title
April 11
Jeff Strom, WMU
A long sequence of abelian groups
March 28
Clifton Ealy, WMU
Some remarks of the foundations of computational group theory
Feb 22
Jay Wood, WMU
Dual Codes and the MacWilliams Identities
Feb 15
Jay Wood, WMU
Dual Codes and the MacWilliams Identities
Feb 8
Jay Wood, WMU
Dual Codes and the MacWilliams Identities
Jan 25, 2008
Clifton Ealy, WMU
Designs and Codes; Codes and Geometries II
Dec 4
Clifton Ealy, WMU
Designs and Codes; Codes and Geometries
Nov 13
Ben Phillips, WMU
Davenport's constant and the Erdos-Ginsburg-Ziv theorem
Nov 6
David Richter, WMU
The E(8) Lattice as Integral Octonions
Oct 30
Terrell Hodge, WMU
Algebraic Statistics, Linear Algebra, and Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction II
Oct 23
Terrell Hodge, WMU
Algebraic Statistics, Linear Algebra, and Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction I
Oct 16
David Richter, WMU
Some constructions of the E(8) lattice
Oct 9
Terrell Hodge, WMU
Applications of Algebraic Geometry to Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the Context of Molecular Biology
Oct 2
Terrell Hodge, WMU
Molecular Biology, Modern Discrete Mathematics, and Algebraic Statistics
Sept 25
David Richter, WMU
The E(8) Lattice
Sept 18
David Arnold, WMU
The Channel Coding Problem
Sept 11
David Richter, WMU
Organizational Meeting

Please direct comments and/or questions regarding the algebra seminar to David A. Richter.


WMU Department of Mathematics