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Mathematics in Science and Society
Fall 2004

Tuesday, September 14, 4 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Allen Tannenbaum, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: Invariant Curvature Flows in Computer Vision and Image Processing
Abstract
Tuesday, October 26, 4 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Philip Holmes, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Title: Optimal decisions: From neural spikes, through stochastic differential equations, to behavior
Abstract
Tuesday, November 16, 4 p.m., 314 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Steve Smale, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, University of Chicago, and University of California at Berkeley
Title: A perspective on learning theory
Abstract
Tuesday, December 7, 4 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Title: Modeling spontaneous activity in developing neural systems
Abstract

Coming in Spring 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 4 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA
Title: TBA
Tuesday, April 26, 4 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Mark Goldberg, Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: TBA


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