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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 1:00pm

Dennis DeTurck

University of Pennsylvania

Location

Drexel University

Korman Center 245

Refreshments will be served at 12:30pm in Korman Center 245

Integral formulas for the winding number of a curve around a point in the plane, and for the linking number of two disjoint simple closed curves in three-space are classical. We'll explore various generalizations of these formulas and their geometric, topological and analytic consequences.