Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 2003)

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 2003 talks schedule

Feb 10 Sinan Gunturk (Courant)
- One-bit quantization: how good are equally important bits?
Feb 17 (President's Day)
Feb 24 Horst Simon, NERSC
- The divergence problem in high performance computing
Mar 3 Dan Meiron, Caltech
Mar 10: no colloquium
Mar 17: no colloquium, recommend the Killian Faculty Achievement Award Lecture: "The robot within us: neural mechanisms underlying habit formation", by Ann M. Graybiel, at 4:30 in 10-250.
Apr 7: Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Labs
- Combinatorial Scientific Computing:
  The role of discrete algorithms in scientific computing
Apr 14: Dmitry Panchenko, M.I.T.
- Bounds on the generalization error of some classification algorithms
Apr 28 Thomas C. Halsey, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
May 5: Elliott Lieb, Princeton
- The Stability of Matter and Quantum Electrodynamics,
  or There Is More to Physics Than The Hydrogen Atom
May 12: Craig Silverstein, Google, 35-225, Unusual Location!
- Mathematical Analysis of Hyperlinks in the World Wide Web

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