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SUMS
Speakers
SUMS Speakers
Posted by gage@math.rochester.edu, 10/24/00 at 9:48:43 PM.
- April 12, 2001, Michael Knapp, U. of Rochester
- A Trip to the Fun House: the World of p-Adic numbers
- February 22, 2001, David Henderson, Cornell University
- "Shape of the Universe" -- more details soon.
- February 1, 2001, Prof. Glenn MacDonald, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester
- will give a talk on Fixed Points, Firms and Stock Market Volatility, which will describe how fixed points, game theory and economic theory relate.
Fall semester 2000
- Dec 14, Josh Lansky, University of Toronto, (formerly at U of R)
- will talk on The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem which concerns continuous functions from a disk to itself. It uses some very cool mathematics, and it will have some interesting props!
- Dec 1, Prof. Lane A. Hemaspaandra, Computer Science Department, U. of Rochester
- will be giving a talk on the Lewis Carroll Voting Scheme which turns out to be a natural example of an extremely complex calculation. Hemaspaandra and other computer scientists are interested in quantifying and classifying exactly how hard these complex problems are.
- Nov 2, Julia Eaton and Joan Montesano
- will report on the mathematics research that each of them did while attending REU's last summer.
- Oct 27, Prof. Mark Fey, Department of Political Science, U. of Rochester
- What Can Mathematics Tell Us About Gore vs. Bush? Using Mathematics Modeling to Explain Political Competition.
- Oct 13, Prof. David Hoffman '66, MSRI (Sesquicentennial Weekend)
- Getting to the surface: Visualizing the mathematics of soap-film and soap-bubble surfaces
- SUMS speaker archives: 1998-2000
- http://www.math.rochester.edu/sums/speakers/speakers1998_2000.html
Spring semester 2001
