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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).
Fall 2008 Organizers: Alan Edelman, Steven G. Johnson, and Jonathan Kelner
| Date | Speaker / Abstract |
|---|---|
| Feb. 7 Thurs Room 4-370 Time: 2:30PM |
Amit Singer (Yale University) Global Positioning from Local Distances Reception at 3:30 PM in Room 2-349 (Applied Math Common Room) |
| Feb. 11 | Eric Dunham (Harvard University) |
| Feb. 18 | Presidents Day - Holiday |
| Feb. 21 Thurs Room 4-370 Time: 2:30PM |
Mark Braverman (University of Toronto) |
| Feb. 25 | Jinbo Xu (Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago) |
| 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) |
| 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 Time: 4:30 Location: 34-101 |
SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics -- John Conway (Princeton University) |
| May 5 Time: 4:30 PM Location: 34-101 |
SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics -- Peter Teichner (University of California, Berkeley) Supersymmetric Euclidean Field Theories and Generalized Cohomology |
| May 12 Room 14W-111 (Killian Hall) Time: 4:30 PM |
Elaine Chew (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and University of Southern California) Joint AMC/Music & Theatre Arts Event Reception at 4:00 PM outside Killian Hall |
| May 19 | Gregory Chaitin (IBM - Yorktown Heights) |