Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Fall 2007)

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 4-270. Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in Room 4-174 (Math Majors Lounge). For more information, contact Alan Edelman, Steven G. Johnson and Jonathan Kelner.

ARCHIVES: Applied Math Colloquia back to 1995 through coming attractions for next semester

Sept. 10: Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
The Sum-Product Theorem and Its Applications
Sept. 17: John Bush (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Surface Tension in Biology
Sept. 24: Alexander Shen (Institute of Problems of Information Transmission, Moscow)
Special Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium and Theory of Computation Colloquium
Room: 2-105 -- Time: 2:30 PM
Fixed Point (Recursion) Theorem and Aperiodic Tile Sets
Oct. 1: Nicolaos Sahinidis (Carnegie Mellon University)
Global Optimization with Branch-and-Reduce
Oct. 8: Columbus Day -- Holiday
Oct. 15: Mark Tygert (Yale University)
A Fast Algorithm for Approximating the Singular Value Decomposition of a Matrix
Oct. 22: NO SEMINAR
Oct. 29: Richard Michaud and Robert Michaud (New Frontier Advisors, LLC)
Estimation Error and Portfolio Optimization: A Resampling Solution
Nov. 5: Darren Crowdy (Imperial College, London and M.I.T.)
The Mathematics of Interaction
Nov. 12: Veterans Day -- Holiday
Nov. 19: Tony Chan (University of California, Los Angeles and National Science Foundation)
Mathematical Approaches to Some Image Processing and Computer Vision Problems
Nov. 20: Mireille Bousquet-Melou (CNRS, LaBRI, Universite Bordeaux, France)
Special Joint Seminar - Applied Mathematics Colloquium and Combinatorics Seminar
Room: 4-237 -- Time: 4:30 PM
Families of Prudent Self-Avoiding Walks
Nov. 26: NO SEMINAR
Dec. 3: NO SEMINAR
Dec. 10: Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Online Learning Algorithms for Searching and Ranking
Dec. 17: Gary Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)
Image Segmentation Using Spectral Graph Theory

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