Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 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.

Feb 27: Bernd Sturmfels (New York University and UC Berkeley)
"Polyhedral Methods for Solving Polynomial Equations"
Mar 6: Gene Golub (Stanford University)
"Method of Moments and Statistical Computations"
Mar 13: Charles Micchelli (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
"On the Neural Network Approximation Problem"
Mar 20: Einar Ronquist (Nektonics, Inc.)
"Two New Domain Decomposition Solvers"
Mar 27 --Spring Break --
Apr 3: Andrew Gelman (UC Berkeley)
"What is the Probability that Your Vote Will Determine the Outcome of the Presidental Election?"
Apr 10: Richard Pollack (New York University)
"Algorithms in real algebraic geometry-recent developments"
Apr 17: --Patriots Day--
Apr 24: Larry Shepp (AT&T Bell Labs)
"Finance Math, Discrete Tomography, and the Zeros of Random Polynomials"
May 1: Noam D. Elkies (Harvard)
"Lattices and Their Shadows"
May 8: Toby Driscoll (Cornell)
"Computing Eigenvalues of Isospectral Drums"
May 11: John Strain (UC Berkeley)
A New Approach to 2-D Vortex Methods
NOTE SPECIAL DAY: THURSDAY!
May 15: Don Schwendeman (RPI)
"The Calculation and Accuracy of Shock Wave Propagation using Geometrical Shock Dynamics"

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