Colloquium Announcement
Department of Mathematics
West Virginia University

for

Thursday, March 26, 1998, at 3:45pm in 324 Armstrong Hall

(Tea and cookies begin at 3:00 in coffee room.)

Professor Thelma West

University of Southern Louisiana

An introduction to span.

The talk will be suitable for a general audience.

Students are strongly encouraged to participate.

Abstract

The concept of the span of a metric space was introduced by A. Lelek in 1964. The span can be thought of as an analogue of the diameter of a metric space. Some simple examples of this "geometric" span will be given. Later the concept of the span of an abstract graph was defined. Some simple examples of the "combinatorial" span will be given. Some comparison will be made between the two types of span.

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http://www.math.wvu.edu/homepages/kcies/colloquium.html