Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 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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Spring 2002 talks schedule

Feb 4, at 4:45! -- note unusual time! Michael Singer, NC State University and MSRI
- Solving Difference Equations in Finite Terms
Feb 11: Phil Hanlon
- A Family of Random Walks on the Complement of a Hyperplane Arrangement
Feb 18: Holiday -- no colloquium.
Feb 25: Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley
- "Numerical Linear Algebra and Solvability of PDEs"
Mar 4: Mark Embree, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
- "Eigenvalues of Locally Perturbed Toeplitz Matrices"
Mar 11: Des Higham
- "Small World Networks, Markov Chains and Numerical Analysis"
Mar 18: Lou Billera, Cornell
- "The Geometry of Phylogenetic Trees"
Mar 25: Spring Break -- no colloquium.
Apr 1: Alan Newell, University of Arizona
- "Global Macroscopic Descripiton of Patterns Far from Onset"
Apr 8: no colloquium scheduled
Apr 15: Holiday -- no colloquium
Apr 22: Paul Edelman, Vanderbilt University
- VOTING POWER, COOPERATIVE GAMES, AND THE COURTS
Apr 29: Alan Frieze, CMU.
- ON RANDOM SYMMETRIC TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEMS
May 6: NO Colloquium due to Simons Lecture (Bob MacPherson)
May 13: Santosh Vempala, MIT
- RANDOM WALKS AND POLYNOMIAL-TIME ALGORITHMS

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