Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 2008)

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 2-105. 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

Thurs, Feb. 7: Amit Singer (Yale University)
Global Positioning from Local Distances
Special Applied Mathematics Colloquium -- *different location* Room 4-370 -- Time: 2:30 PM
Reception at 3:30 PM in Room 2-349 (Applied Math Common Room)
Feb. 11: Eric Dunham (Harvard University)
Earthquake Modeling: From Fault Friction to Seismic Hazard
Feb. 18: Presidents Day - Holiday
Thurs, Feb. 21: Mark Braverman (University of Toronto)
Noisy Sorting Without Resampling
Special Applied Mathematics Colloquium -- *different location* Room 4-370 -- Time: 2:30 PM
Feb. 25: Jinbo Xu (Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago)
Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction
Mar. 3: Per-Olof Persson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Mar. 10: Alexei Ashikhmin (Bell Labs)
Algebraic Constructions of Grassmannian Packings
Mar. 17: NO SEMINAR
Mar. 24: Spring Break
Mar. 31: NO SEMINAR
Apr. 7: Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University)
Can One Hear the Heat of a Body? Mathematics of Thermoacoustic Tomography.
April 14: Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
Weakly Informative Priors and some other Problems in Statistical Methods
Apr. 21: Patriots Day -- Holiday
Apr. 28: SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics -- John Conway, (Princeton University)
Time: 4:30, Location: 34-101
From Games to Numbers and Back
May 5: SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics -- Peter Teichner, (University of California, Berkeley)
Time: 4:30 PM, Location: 34-101
Supersymmetric Euclidean Field Theories and Generalized Cohomology
May 12: Elaine Chew (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and University of Southern California)
Joint AMC/Music & Theatre Arts Event -- Room 14W-111 (Killian Hall) Time: 4:30 PM
Reception at 4:00 PM outside Killian Hall
The Mathematics in Music
May 19: Gregory Chaitin (IBM - Yorktown Heights)
Is Incompleteness Serious?

MIT Math Department Home Page.