Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 2004)

Most talks are at 4:15 pm in Room 2-105. (New room this semester!) Refreshments are typically served at 3:45 pm in Room 2-349. For more information, contact the organizers, Alan Edelman and Daniel Spielman.

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Spring 2004 talks schedule

Feb 9 Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley)
- Nash Equilibria and Complexity
Feb 16 (President's Day -- no classes)
Feb 23 Philip Bradley (U Wash)
- Folding Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction
Mar 1 Ron Fedkiw (Stanford)
- Numerical Methods for Simulating Fluids and Solids
Mar 8 Jack Silverstein (North Carolina State University)
- Eigenvalues of Large Dimensional Sample Covariance Matrices.
Mar 15 Tim Roughgarden (Stanford)
- Selfish Routing And The Price Of Anarchy
Mar 22 (Spring Break)
Mar 29 Paul van Dooren (Catholic University of Louvain)
- Model Reduction of Large Dynamical Systems
Apr 5 Eric Weisstein (Wolfram Research)
- Communicating Math on the WEB: The Present and Future of MathWorld
Apr 12 Santosh Vempala (MIT)
- How to Compute the Volume?
Apr 19 (Patriots Day)
Apr 26 Erik Katsavounidis (MIT)
- LIGO Detectors and Data Analyses: Current Status and Future Prospects
May 3 Vincent D. Blondel, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Stable Pairs of Matrices, Sturmian Sequences, Devil's Staircases and Conic Optimization
May 10 Kim Chuan Toh (National University Singapore)

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