Student Colloquium talk by Professor Liz Stanhope of Lewis and Clark College (Visiting Professor at Bucknell University)
Title: Listening to Orbifolds and Orbigraphs
Abstract: Spectral geometry is a lively area of mathematical research motivated by the question `Can you hear the shape of a drum?’ My work in spectral geometry has been to study the spectral properties of objects called orbifolds. Questions in spectral geometry have useful analogs in graph theory. Because of this we’ll discuss how to make sense of the concept of orbifold in the setting of spectral graph theory.