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Mathematics in Science and Society

Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Talks scheduled for Fall, 1996

Noga Alon, Randomness and pseudo-randomness in Discrete Mathematics, 4:00 PM, Tuesday, September 10, 1996, Room to be announced, Altgeld Hall.

Cathleen Morawetz, The Usefulness of Energy Integrals, 4:30 PM, Tuesday, September 17, 1996, Room 314, Altgeld Hall. Colloquium: Transonic Flows, 4:00 PM, Thursday, September 19, 1996, Room 314, Altgeld Hall. See the poster!

Ingrid Daubechies, How I Became a Mathematician, 11:30 AM, Friday, September 27, 1996, Room 143, Mechanical Engineering Building. Surfing with Wavelets, Friday, September 27, 1996 at 4:30 pm, Room 314, Altgeld Hall. See the poster!

No seminar (faculty meeting) Tuesday, October 15, 1996.

Richard W. Hamming, Mathematics on a different planet, or, How arbitrary is our accepted Mathematics? 4:00 PM, Tuesday, October 22, 1996, Room 314, Altgeld Hall.

Russel Caflisch: Theory and Application of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods Monday, 4:00 PM, November 4, room 1310 DCL; and Vortex Dynamics and Singularities, 4:00 PM, Tuesday, November 5, 1996, room 314 Altgeld Hall.

Friedlander photo Susan Friedlander: A World of Instabilities, Tuesday, 4:00 PM, November 12, 1996, room 314 Altgeld Hall.


Eric Weinstein: The practical side of 'pure mathematics': How differential geometry could save the government 40 Billion dollars a year and reduce the deficit by 23% over 7 years, or "Waiter, there's a gauge theory in my economy!" Tuesday, 4:00 PM, November 19, 1996, room 314 Altgeld Hall.

No seminar (departmental party), Tuesday, December 10, 1996.

Past talks:

  • Spring, 1995
  • Fall, 1995
  • Spring, 1996