Applied Math Colloquium

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For more information, contact Philippe Rigollet and Laurent Demanet

Fall 2005

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).

Fall 2005 Organizers: Alan Edelman and Santosh Vempala

Date Speaker / Abstract
Sept. 5

(Labor Day -- Holiday)

Sept 12

Amir Dembo (Stanford University)

Fractal Geometry of Simple Random Covering: Late and Favorite Points

Sept. 19

(Student Holiday)

Sept. 26

Robb J. Muirhead (Pfizer Global R&D)

Statistical Inference about QT Signals

Oct. 3

No SEMINAR

Oct. 10

(Columbus Day -- Holiday)

Oct. 17

Fan Chung Graham (University of California, San Diego)

Cheeger Inequalities for Directed Graphs

Oct. 24

James P. Sethna (Cornell University)

Walls formed by Bending: Grain Boundaries and Cell Walls from Continuum Plasticity

Oct. 31

Tamara G. Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)

Multilinear Algebra and its Application to Higher-order Web Link Analysis

Nov. 7

No SEMINAR

Nov. 14

Vadim Olshevsky (University of Connecticut)

Potpourri on Structured Matrices

Nov. 21

Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University)

Probability and Recursion

Nov. 28

Mohammad Mahdian (Microsoft Research)

Random Popular Matchings

Dec. 5

No SEMINAR

Dec. 12

Martin Bazant (MIT)

Some New Applications of Conformal Mapping