Speaker: Guillaume Valette (Krakow) http://www.impan.pl/~gvalette/ Time: Tuesday, August 16, 12 NOON--1PM Room: Carslaw 707A Title: on the Lelong number of Whitney stratified sets Abstract: the Lelong number (or density) may be considered as a counterpart of the notion of multiplicity (used in complex algebraic geometry) for real analytic and algebraic sets. The Lelong number of a real analytic germ A (at 0) is defined as the limit (as r goes to zero) of the volume of A intersected with a ball of radius r (centred at 0) divided by the volume of this ball. I will explain that it varies continuously along the strata of a Whitney stratification. -------------------------------------------------------- Geometry Seminar Web Site: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SemConf/Geometry/index.html