Gersten (surname)

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Gersten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Bernard Gersten is an American theatrical producer. Beginning in the 1960s through the early 2000s, Gersten played a major role in shaping American drama and musical theatre.

David M. Gersten is an American lawyer and judge on the Florida Third District Court of Appeal.

Dennis Gersten American actor and director who helped create Stagewrights, Inc. in New York City, a playwrights' theatre company. There, he wrote Mine and the one-acts Rhetoric and Puppy Chow and directed and performed in original works. Gersten attended the graduate program in acting at California Institute of the Arts where he wrote Willie Said To, a finalist with the LA Arts Council and other contests nationally and performed at Playwrights Arena and Unity Players; Desert - Morning, performed at the Gene Dynarski Theatre; and Dirty Slut. Primarily an actor, Gersten performed with Linda Hamilton in the world premiere of Worse Than Murder: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg at the Ventura Court Theatre and the west coast premiere of David and Goliath in America with the Road Theatre Company, for which he received an ADA Award. He is a founding member of Theatre Unlimited, where he was seen in Shoe Man and Move Over, Mrs. Markham, and where he directed The Author’s Thumb, his own adaptation of the works of Henry Fielding, for which Gersten received three ADA Awards, as a director, writer and producer. He was also nominated for an LA Weekly Theater Award for his performance in Dirk at the Road Theatre.

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Gersten Pavilion architectural structure

The Gersten Pavilion is a 3900-seat multi-purpose arena in Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the Loyola Marymount University Lions. It was built in 1981. It was also the part-time practice home for the Los Angeles Lakers. It was the site for the weightlifting competition for the 1984 Summer Olympics. On March 4, 1990, LMU star Hank Gathers died during a West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament game from cardiomyopathy. The tourney was promptly suspended and LMU was awarded the NCAA bid based on their regular season title. The facility also hosted the WCC tournament in 1997. The arena is known among LMU alumni as "Hank's House" in honor of Gathers.

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Christian Ludwig Gersten was a German scientist.

In the mathematical subject of geometric group theory, the Baumslag–Gersten group, also known as the Baumslag group, is a particular one-relator group exhibiting some remarkable properties regarding its finite quotient groups, its Dehn function and the complexity of its word problem.

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Gerstein may refer to:

Alexandra I. Gersten-Vassilaros is an American playwright and actress. She is the co-author, with Theresa Rebeck, of Omnium Gatherum which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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In the area of mathematics known as K-theory, the Quillen spectral sequence, also called the Brown–Gersten–Quillen or BGQ spectral sequence, is a spectral sequence converging to the sheaf cohomology of a type of topological space that occurs in algebraic geometry. It is used in calculating the homotopy properties of a simplicial group.

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Joseph M. Gersten was an American politician in the state of Florida.

Stephen M. Gersten is an American mathematician, specializing in finitely presented groups and their geometric properties.