Regional Geometry Institute
Regional Geometry Institute Collection
1991 July
RG 25 M5 G3
20 boxes
(20 linear feet)
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Regional Geometry Institute held at the Five Colleges in 1991 included a series of talks by noted mathematicians exploring the shape of space and related topics.
The videotapes in this collection were recorded at the Regional Geometry Institute organized by Five Colleges mathematics faculty and convened at Mount Holyoke in July 1991. The Institute sponsored a dozen speakers on the shape of space and related topics, most giving more than one lecture.
English
In 1990, a group of six mathematicians from UMass Amherst and the Five Colleges community were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Regional Geometry Institute. The principal investigators -- Donal O'Shea, Marjorie Senechal, Robert Kusner, Eduardo Cattani, David Cox, and Robert Currier -- proposed convening a group of graduate and undergraduate students and university and high school faculty to explore the interaction between geometry and computation.
As part of the Institute, the Five Colleges hosted a series of talks in July 1991 in which noted mathematicians discussed the shape of space and related topics.
The videotapes in this collection were recorded at the Regional Geometry Institute organized by Five Colleges mathematics faculty and convened at Mount Holyoke in July 1991. The Institute sponsored a dozen speakers on the shape of space and related topics, most giving more than one lecture.
The lectures were recorded in relatively brief segments, averaging around 20 minutes. They have not been spliced together.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Regional Geometry Institute Collection (RB 25 M5 G3). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Gift of Rob Kusner, 2013.
Several of the talks have been digitized are available for viewing online through our digital repository, Credo.
Education
Science & technology
UMass Amherst (1947- )
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, Jan. 2018.
Adams, Colin
Banchoff, Thomas
Berger, Marcel, 1927-
Bourgignon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1947-
Brakke, Kenneth A.
deTurck, Dennis M.
Gluck, Hermann
Hoffman, David
Karcher, Hermann, 1938-
Morgan, Frank (Professor Mathematics, Williams College)
Schwartz, Judah
Weeks, Jeffrey R., 1956-
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics
Geometry
Minimal surfaces
Riemannian manifolds
Soap bubbles--Mathematics
Space--Mathematics
Surfaces--Mathematics
Topology
Videotapes
15Banchoff, ThomasGeometry as a lab science1991 July 9
19Berger, Marcel, 1927-Circles I 1991 July 2
9Berger, Marcel, 1927-Circles II1991 July 4
3-4Berger, Marcel, 1927-Convex bodies1991 July 93 parts
12Bourgignon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1947-Drum-matic mathematics1991 July 20
16Bourgignon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1947-Faber-Krahn inequality1991 July 22
4Bourgignon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1947-Dirac operators and Riemannian geometry1991 July 245 parts
20Brakke, Kenneth A.Opaque squares and regions1991 July 1
1-2deTurck, Dennis M.Music of the spheres and other symmetric spaces1997 July 234 parts
13Gluck, HermanCalibrations I1991 July 22
2Gluck, HermanCalibrations II: shape of a projective spaces and Lie groups1991 July 233 parts
17Gluck, HermanCalibrations III1991 July 24
11Gluck, HermanCalibrations IV1991 July 25
17Gluck, HermanCalibrations V1991 July 26
8Karcher, Hermann, 1938-Minimal surfaces1991 July 19
10Karcher, Hermann, 1938- and David HoffmanA minimal surface debate1991 July 26
18Morgan, Frank (Professor Mathematics, Williams College)Calibrations and area minimizing surfaces in manifolds1991 July 4
2-3Morgan, Frank (Professor Mathematics, Williams College)Crystals and shortest networks1991 July 23 parts
1Morgan, Frank (Professor Mathematics, Williams College)Soap bubbles and mathematics1991 July 14 parts
20Schwartz, JudahComputer environments for learning mathematics1991 July 23
14Slugbate, Mel [i.e. Colin Adams]Real estate oppprtunities in hyperbolic space1991 July 8
Weeks, Jeffrey R., 1956-Shape of space1991 July 93 parts
14Session in geometry of variational problems1991 July 3