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Verifiable information: the problem of communication

2014-06-09 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-SEMIN Slobodan Danko Bosanac (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia) Verifiable information: the problem of communication Exchange of information occurs on all levels of living matter, and it is the basis without which life could not be developed, especially on the…

A CENTURY OF GRAPH THEORY

2014-06-11 11:00-12:00 FAMNIT-VP prof. dr. Robin Wilson (Open University, United Kingdom) A CENTURY OF GRAPH THEORY Graph theory has changed completely from the late-19th century to the late 20th century, from a collection of mainly recreational problems to a well-developed…

Non-commutative Stone dualities

2014-06-23 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-SEMIN Ganna Kudryavtseva, IMFM Non-commutative Stone dualities In the talk, I will outline several approaches to non-commutative generalizations of Stone duality that have been developed in recent years. The general idea can be very briefly explained as follows:…

EULER: 300 YEARS ON

2014-06-11 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-VP prof. dr. Robin Wilson (Open University, United Kingdom) EULER: 300 YEARS ON Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all time – but what did he do?  In this talk I survey his life in Basel, St…

On equity-linked life insurance

2014-05-26 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-SEMIN Ana Zalokar On equity-linked life insurance In equity-linked life insurance contracts, the benefits are directly linked to the value of an investment portfolio. The financial risk can be totally charged to the policyholder in pure equity-linked constracts,…

Fibre bundles as generalized universal covers

2014-05-19 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-SEMIN Paul Fabel (Mississippi State University) Fibre bundles as generalized universal covers Classical covering theory ensures each connected metric space with reasonable local properties ( locally path connected, and semi locally simply connected) admits a universal covering (essentially…

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