| Speaker: Professor Jimmie
Lawson, Louisiana State University
Date and Time: Thursday, February 23,
2006, Room: 1005, College of Information Technology Building. Title: Unraveling the Mysteries of Infinity All are
welcome! Undergraduate and graduate students are especially
welcome! Refreshments will be available at 5:30 p.m. outside of Room 1005 of the Information Technology Building. |
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Abstract: Since ancient times philosophers, mathematicians,
and scientists have been fascinated and mystified by the concept of the
infinite. The first important insights into the mathematics of infinity
arose in the late nineteenth century in George Cantor's theory of
infinite sets, which we illustrate with a mathematical variant of the
story of Hercules' fifth labor, the cleansing of the Augean stables.
Past CLEC Lectures:
1. Professor Doron Lubinsky, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Time and place: Thursday, April 1, 2004, Time: 2p.m-3p.m. Room no.2047 ( Russell Union ).
Title: Continuing the fraction.
Abstract. Much of the power of modern mathematics lies in its ability to take limits : to add, multiply ,or devide infinitely often.The speaker will focus on continued fractions, which involve infinitely many divisions. Number theory makes heavy use of continued fraction expansions of power series. The speaker will compare and contrast
2. Professor Sam B.Nadler Jr., Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University.
Time and Place: Thursday, April 15, 2004. Time: 2p.m-3p.m ( Russell Union ) Room no. 2047
Title: A beautiful mind.
3. Ralph Kopperman, City College of CUNY.
Time and Place: Thursday, February 17, 2005, 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Room: 3001 Math/Physics Building.
Title: Not all points are created equal.
Abstract: The computer screen looks like a rectangle in the
plane, but under a magnifying glass it breaks up into an array of about
a million
bright dots (pixels). It could save memory space to store boundaries
and colors of regions, rather than the color of each pixel. This turns
out
to be impossible to do if the screen is thought of as a set of equal
points, but possible and useful if it is thought of as a space where
some
points are more equal than others.
4.
| Speaker: Professor Richard
S. Varga, Kent State University.
Date and Time: Thursday, November 10,
2005, Room: 1005, College of Information Technology Building. Title: Gerschgorin and His Circles. Undergraduate and graduate students are especially welcome! Everyone is welcome! Refreshments will be available at 5:30 p.m. outside of Room 1005 of the IT Building. |
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Abstract:
Dr. Varga received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard in
1954. Currently, he is the Research Director of the Institute for
Computational Mathematics as well as a University Professor in the
Department of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University. He has
published seven books and over 235 research papers. His book entitled
"Matrix Iterative Analysis", published by Prentice Hall, is a classic
in matrix theory.
Dr. Varga has been highly recognized for his contributions to research and teaching. He received prestigious awards and honors such as the Von Humboldt Prize (Senior US Award, 1982) and the Hans Schneider Prize (the International Linear Algebra Society, 2005). He is currently an Editorial Board member of eleven high quality mathematical journals such as Numerische Mathematik, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Constructive Approximation and Analysis.
