Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 1996)

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.

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Feb 26: Phil Nelson (U. Penn)
Propagating Peristalsis in Tubular Vessicles
March 4: Jerry Bona
Wave-Bottom Interaction in the Formation of Sandbars
NOTE: This talk will start at 4:30 pm.
March 11: Andrew Barron (Yale)
Uniform Learnability, Model Selection, and Neural Networks
March 18: Peter Shor
Quantum Computing
March 25 --- Spring Break ---
April 1: Michael Shelley (Courant)
The Hydrodynamics of Stretching, Buckling Filaments
April 8: Rodney J. Baxter (Australian National)
The Hard Hexagon Model and Rogers-Ramanuganism
April 15 --- Patriot's Day ---
April 22: Michel Goemans
Semidefinite Programming
April 29: Pete Stewart (University of Maryland)
G.W. Stewart
May 6: Eric D. Siggia (Cornell) DNA, Chromosomes and Polymer Statistical Mechanics
May 13: Mike Shub (IBM Yorktown Heights)
"On the Ergodic Hypothesis and A Genericity Conjecture for Chaotic Dynamics"

Previous semesters' schedules:

Coming Attractions: the Fall 1996 Colloquium Schedule.

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