MEETING-DATE:April 8th, 2009 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331 MEETING-TIME:1:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Ryan Stedman MEETING-CHAIRPIC:ryan_bw.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Kate COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Volunteers? COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers? FORTH-DATE1:April 15th, 2009 FORTH-DATE2:April 22nd, 2009 FORTH-DATE3:April 29th, 2009 FORTH-DATE4:May 6th, 2009 FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 1:30 FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 1:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 2303 1:30 FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1304 1:30 FORTH-CHAIR1:Stephen Mann FORTH-CHAIR2:Michael McCool FORTH-CHAIR3:Zainab Meraj FORTH-CHAIR4:Alex Pytel FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:smann.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:mmccool.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:zainab.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:apytel.jpg FORTH-TP1:Kate Kinnear FORTH-TP2:Ben Lafreniere FORTH-TP3:Stephen Mann FORTH-TP4:Michael McCool FORTH-TPPIC1:kinnear.gif FORTH-TPPIC2:ben.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:smann.jpg FORTH-TPPIC4:mmccool.jpg TPNAME:Craig Kaplan TPTITLE:An introduction to orbifolds TPABSTRACT:Orbifolds are an elegant, intuitive and practical way to think about the symmetries of patterns. In this talk I'll explain what an orbifold is, how simple symmetry groups can be described based on their orbifold structures, and how they can be used to derive facts about symmetry groups and tilings. TPPIC:craig.jpg DIONE: DITWO: DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE:Meeting for April 29th will be in DC 2303 AITWO: AITHREE: AIFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:
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