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              <div align="center"><big><b><big>Welcome to the 2025
                      Spring talks of ODTU-Bilkent Algebraic Geometry
                      Seminars</big></b></big><b><br>
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              <div align="center"><i>since 2000</i><br>
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                This week the <a
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                  Algebraic Geometry Seminar</a>  is <b>online</b><br>
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                <i><font color="#ff00ff">This talk will begin at <u><b>15:40</b></u><u> (GMT+3)</u></font></i><br>
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              <div align="center"><i>Van Gogh (1853-1890)</i><br>
                <div align="left"><b><b><font color="#ff0000">Speaker: 
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                        color="#ff0000">Affiliation: </font><i>Hacettepe</i></b></b></div>
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                <div align="left"><b><b><font color="#ff0000"> Title: <font
                          color="#000000">The Algebra of Generalised
                          Splines</font></font></b><br>
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              <div align="left"><b><b><font color="#ff0000">Abstract: </font></b></b>Clasical
                splines are piecewise polynomial functions over
                polyhedral complexes with a certain degree of smoothness
                at the intersections of adjacent faces. They are widely
                used in applications of different areas, ranging from
                approximation theory to geomatric modelling.
                Alternativaly,  splines can be interpreted as a
                collection of polynomial labeling the vertices of a
                (compinatorial) graph, with adjacent vertex-labels
                differing by the power of an affine line form attacthed
                to the edge. The concept of splines can be generalized
                to define on graphs with edge labels over arbitrary
                rings. Such splines are called generalized splines.<br>
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                In this talk, we give a brief description of what
                generalized splines are on arbitrary garphs and their
                properties. We explain  algebraic geometric and
                combinatorial motivations behind studying generalized
                splines. In the rest of the talk, we mainly focus on the
                module structure of generalized splines and discuss
                their basis.<br>
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              <div align="left"><font color="#ff0000"><font
                    color="#000000"><b><font color="#ff0000">Date:<font
                          color="#000000"> 21 March 2025</font></font></b>,
                    <b>Friday</b></font></font><br>
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                    color="#000000"><b><font color="#ff0000">Time: </font>15:40 <i>(GMT+3)</i></b><br>
                    <b><font color="#ff0000">Place: </font></b><font
                      color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><b>Zoom</b></font></font></font></font></div>
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                              day before the seminar, an announcement
                              with the Zoom meeting link will be sent to
                              those who registered with Sertöz.<br>
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                              you have registered before for one of the
                              previous talks, there is no need to
                              register again; you will automatically
                              receive a link for this talk too.<br>
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style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">If
                              you have not registered before, please
                              contact him at <a
href="mailto:sertoz@bilkent.edu.tr?subject=Zoom%20Seminar%20Address%20Request"
                                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">sertoz@bilkent.edu.tr</a>.</b></b></font></font></font></font></p>
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              <div align="left">You are most cordially invited to
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              <div align="left">Ali Sinan Sertöz</div>
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