Lecture 2:  The Jacobi Sine Functions

Abstract:  Last Thursday we discussed the general properties of elliptic functions on E=C/L, for a lattice L, and the notion of a level 2 structure on E.  We will now construct specific elliptic functions known as the Jacobi sine functions and derive the differential equation they satisfy.  The Euler addition formula will be stated without proof.

Dr. McGuire is author of the book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – a History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. 

Her groundbreaking book gives the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began and how it was in part started in protest of the ritualistic rape of black women by white men. Dr. McGuire begins her book with the story of the rape in 1944 of a 24-year old mother and sharecropper by 7 white men. 

The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator to take on this case; a woman named Rosa Parks. At the Dark End of the Street is a controversial, moving, and courageous book.

Learn more about the author at http://atthedarkendofthestreet.com

Parking is available at 401 Hilltop Avenue (next to W.T. Young Library).  Visitor Rates: $2/hour | $16/exit maximum

This lot is to accommodate visitors to the W.T. Young Library. Customers exiting when the cashier booth is in operation will be charged the standard fee (above). Accepted payment methods are cash, check (with driver's license) and credit card (Visa/MasterCard/AMEX/Discover Card).

Handicap parking:  Accessible parking is available in the parking lot.

Street parking near the Library is on Woodland Ave. between Hilltop Ave. and Columbia Ave.,in front of the new Woodland Glen dormitories.  At that time of day street parking might also be found on Columbia or Woodland.

The UK Appalachian Center welcomes Dr. Rebecca Klenk from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.  She will be giving a talk entitled Global Uttarakhand: Development, Neoliberalism and Social Justice in Himalayan India as a part of our Appalachian Forum Series on Civil Rights, Labor and Environmental Social Movements in Appalachia.  Her talk will be held in the Niles Gallery from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, March 9, 2015.  A reception will follow at the UK Appalachian Center from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Professor Avinash Sathaye will work on problem solving with students.   Students who are interested in participating in competitions such the Putnam Exam and the Virginia Tech Regional Math Competition are encouraged to attend.  Contact Sathaye (sathaye@uky.edu) for more information. 

American Book Award winnder Emily Raboteau will read from and discuss her most recent work "Searching for Zion:  The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora"

Sponsored by African American & Africana Studies Program, English Creative Writing Program, Jewish Studies Program, and Social Theory Program.  

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Dr. Gabriel Veith of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be presenting a seminar titled Vapor deposition: A synthetic strategy to make and understand catalysts.  

Abstract: This seminar will describe the use of physical vapor deposition methods to grow supported metal nanoparticles.  While not a classical chemical synthesis method it introduces a new tool to the chemists arsenal.  For example, this method enables us to understand the processes that go into making catalysts by the traditional decomposition of solution impregnated precursors on a metal oxide support.   It also enables us to prepare new metastable materials such as PdN6 and PtN5. These materials have utility in the activation of N2 which currently accounts for about 3% of the world's energy consumption and is important to sustain the human population.

Faculty Host:  Dr. Susan Odom