Meeting Notes 2024-04-09

Admin Items None   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Greens Functions Two Ways Joshua and Joel discussed two different approaches to solving for Green’s functions. Let’s first recall the basic setup. Given a...

Meeting Notes 2024-04-02

Admin Items Summer plans initial chat (will likely continue seminar series with those who remain in town) End of semester and reading content (may choose new books in summer)   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Locations of...

Meeting Notes 2024-03-26

Admin Items Readings updated New timeline for meeting notes and emails – ideally day-of meeting to give most time for reading.   This Week’s Finds Topics discussed this week are below. Projections on Hilbert spaces and Casimirs Joshua, Christopher,...

Meeting Notes 2024-03-19

Admin Items Reading quantity feedback   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Riemann Tensor Symmetry Group (Again!) Jim presented updated work that describes the symmetry group of the Riemann Tensor fully, without additional...

Meeting Notes 2024-03-12

Admin Items Website updates (meeting notes from last week)   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Jim was OOO so this week’s notes will be brief. Wigner 3 and 6 j Symbols Michael presented an application of the Wigner...

Meeting Notes 2024-02-27

Admin Items New time, new food!   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Polygon Affine Reflection Dynamics Lael introduced an action on the set of polygons that, given a \(n\)-gon \(P\), produces an \(m\)-gon \(P’\) where...