CAPITAL REGION ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR 


Speaker:       Pedro Teixeira, Union College                     

Time:          Wednesday, April 30, at 4:30pm 

Place:         Bailey Hall 100, Union College 

Title:         Polynomials, Power Series and p-Fractals 
 

Abstract: 

In this talk I'll introduce some apparently simple questions about
polynomials and power series for which no answer is known. However, when the
coefficients of the polynomials or power series are in a finite field, the
questions lead to mysterious real-valued functions, and there is
experimental evidence that these functions have self-similarity properties
that completely characterize them. In some cases this can actually be
proven.

(This is joint work with Paul Monsky). 


Refreshments at 4:15pm in Math. Dept. Lounge, 2nd floor. 


PS. Since this is the last meeting of CRANTS for this semester, we plan 
to go for dinner after the talk. Please plan to join us!