Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Fall 1996)

All the talks are at 4:15 pm in Room 4-163. Refreshments are typically served at 3:45 pm in Room 2-349. For more information, contact the organizers, Alan Edelman for the continuous side (fluids, physics, dynamics, numerical algorithms, mechanics, ...) and Sergey Fomin on the discrete side. (combinatorics, optimization, complexity, theoretical computer science, computational biology, ...)

Map to building 2 and building 4 ( 4 is next to 2)
Yet another map to building 2 and building 4

Sep 9: Hung Cheng (MIT)
Re-Visiting Quantum Gauge Field Theories -- Trouble with the Standard Model?
Sep 16: Dan Spielman (MIT)
Highly Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation
Sep 23: --- Student Holiday ---
Sep 30: Gina Kolata (New York Times)
How does a Math Story Get Into the NY Times?
Oct 7: Charles S. Peskin (Courant Institute NYU)
Random walks along microtubules: the stochastic dynamics of two molecular motors
Oct 8: SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM 4:15p 2-338
A. Fokas (Imperial College, London and Clarkson, Potsdam NY)
A Unified Transform Method for Solving Linear and Certain Nonlinear PDE's
Oct 14: --- Columbus Day ----
Oct 21: Albert Cohen (U. Paris)
Adaptive Multiscale Approximations and PDEs
Oct 28: James Demmel (UC Berkeley)
Fast or Accurate Algorithms for Eigenvalue Problems
Nov 4: Joel Koplik (CUNY)
Superfluid Vortex Scattering
Nov 11: --- Veterans Day ----
Nov 18: Stuart Geman (Brown University)
Maximum-Likelihood Decoding
Nov 25: Dmitri Burago (Pennsylvania State University) Collisions of hard balls and geometry of non-positive curvature
Dec 2: Steve Grossberg (BU)
The Attentive Brain: Perception, Learning, and Consciousness
Dec 9: Oded Goldreich (Weizmann Institute)
Probabilistic Proof Systems

Previous semesters' schedules:
The Spring 1997 Colloquium Schedule.
MIT Math Department Home Page.
MIT Academic Calendar 1995-1996 .
This page may be reached by the shortened address: http://web.mit.edu/mathdept/www/AppliedMathColloq/fall96