Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Fall 1995)

All the 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 Sergey Fomin.

This semester (Fall 1995)'s schedule:

Sep 18: Daniel H. Rothman (Check out the movies!) (MIT Earth, Atmos & Plan)
"Interfaces, multiphase flow, and lattice-gas automata"
Sep 25: -- Student Holiday --
Oct 2: Cleve Moler (Mathworks)
"Matrix -- The Mother of all Data Structures"
Oct 9: -- Columbus Day --
Oct 16: Joel Cohen (Rockefeller University)
"How many people can the Earth support?"
Oct 23: Leopold Flatto (Bell Labs)
The Lap-Counting Function for Linear Mod One and Tent Maps
Oct 30: Beresford Parlett (UC Berkeley)
"What Hadamard missed"
Nov 6: Nati Linial (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
The Geometry of Graphs
Nov 8: Steven Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Computing Spacetime Curvature via Differential-Algebraic Equations (Note: This talk will held at 3:00 pm in Room 1-390!)
Nov 13: Nathan Kutz (Princeton University)
The Periodically Perturbed Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Nov 20: Gil Kalai (Institute for Advanced Study and Hebrew University)
All Monotone Graph Properties Have Sharp Thresholds
Nov 27: R. Ruben Rosales (MIT)
Large amplitude nonlinear resonant acoustic waves without shocks.
Dec 1: J. Maurice Rojas (MIT)
Things Your Mother Should Have Told You About Infinity
Note the special day (Friday), time (1:00 pm), and room (2-338)!
Dec 4: Per Bak (Brookhaven National Lab)
Punctuated Equilibria and Self-Organized Criticality
Dec 11: David Aldous (UC Berkeley)
Probabilistic Combinatorics, Weak Convergence, and Probability Models for Random Coalescing

Previous semesters' schedules:

Spring 1995 Colloquium Schedule

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