VCU Mathematics Department Colloquium

Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.

Location: Temple Building Room 1165

Prof. Henning S. Mortveit, Virginia Tech

Henning Morveit received his Ph.D from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2000.

He is currently an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech and a Senior Research Associate for the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory in the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. His research involves dynamical processes on graphs.

Professor Morveit’s Virginia Tech webpage is found here.

"Finite and real-valued graph dynamical systems"

The class of graph dynamical systems captures dynamical processes over networks. Much of their theory has been concerned with the finite state case where tools from graph theory, algebra and combinatorics are much more central than for classical dynamical system analysis.  This presentation will give an introduction and overview of the research area. It will include results that hold for any state space (e.g. complex numbers) and will contrast this with results only valid for the finite case. The presentation will conclude with some open problems.