Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Fall 2002)

Most talks are at 4:15 pm in Room 2-105. Refreshments are typically served at 3:45 pm in Room 2-349. For more information, contact the organizers, Alan Edelman and Daniel Spielman.

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Fall 2002 talks schedule

Sept 9: Madhu Sudan, MIT EECS
- List decoding of error-correcting codes
Sept 16: no colloquium
Sept 23: (Student Holiday -- no classes)
Sept 30:
Oct 7: Paul Seymour (Princeton).
- Strong Perfect Graph Theorem
Oct 14: (Columbus Day -- Holiday)
Oct 21: Mark J. Ablowitz (University of Colorado Boulder)
Oct 28: Sylvia Nasar (Columbia School of Journalism)
- A Beautiful Mind: Genius, Madness, Reawakening
Nov 4: John Gilbert (MIT and UC Santa Barbara)
- Support-Graph Preconditioning
Nov 11: (Veterans Day -- Holiday)
Nov 18: Francois Bergeron
- Recent Results and Conjectures Concerning Quasi-Symmetric Polynomials
Nov 25:
Dec 2: Leslie Greengard (NYU)
Dec 9: Elchanan Mossel (U. C. Berkeley)
- New coins from old: computing with unknown bias
Dec 16: (Start of final exam week)

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