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3rd Annual Cantrell Lecture Series

Professor Jerrold Marsden, California Institue of Technology Wednesday, October 23, 1996, 4:00 p.m.  Forest Resources, Room 100 "Introduction to Mechanics and Dynamics" Dr. Marsden's first lecture, accessible to a general audience, will introduce the role of geometry and symmetry in the mechanics and dynamics of familiar systems. A falling cat is able to right itself through the geometric generation of rotations, while other systems, such…


4th Annual Cantrell Lecture Series

Professor John W. Milnor  SUNY, Stony Brook Wednesday, October 8, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
 Physics Building, Room 202 "Pasting Together Julia Sets" This lecture will describe how one can paste together two rather skinny fractal sets, with no interior, to obtain a full 2-dimensional sphere. If f is a polynomial map from the complex numbers to themselves. then the "filled Julia set" K60 is the set of complex numbers z such that the sequence z, f…


5th Annual Cantrell Lecture Series

Professor Gilles I. Pisier, University of Paris VI and Texas A & M University Wednesday, December 2, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
 Physics Building, Room 202
 "The Halmos problem" Thursday, December 3, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, Room 328 "Similarity problems and lengths of operator algebras" Friday, December 4, 1998, 4:30 p.m. 
Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, Room 328  "Operator spaces and…


6th Annual Cantrell Lectures

Sir Michael Atiyah  University of Edinburgh Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 4:00 p.m.
 Physics Building, Room 202 "Physics, Geometry and Space" In the past 25 years there have been remarkable and quite unexpected developments in geometry originating in quantum theory. Professor Atiyah will outline the fascinating story which still continues, and involves the latest ideas in fundamental physics. This lecture is aimed at a general audience…


7th Annual Cantrell Lectures

Professor Karen K. Uhlenbeck Sid W. Richardson Regents Professor of Mathematics University of Texas, Austin Physics, Room 202 Professor Karen Uhlenbeck made pioneering contributions to global geometry and gauge theory that resulted in advances in mathematical physics and the theory of partial differential equations. She has received numerous awards and honors for her mathematical work, including election to the National Academy of Sciences and…


8th Annual Cantrell Lectures

Lecture 1  "Group representations, their applications and arithmetic" Monday, April 15, 2002  4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Physics Building, Room 202 (Refreshments will be served before the talk, at 3:30 p.m.) Representations of symmetric groups are a basic tool in physics and chemistry.  But, in addition, representations of finite groups come up in many other places in science and examples will be given, leading to the "…


9th Annual Cantrell Lectures

Monday, March 31, 2003 4:00 p.m. Physics Bldg., Room 202 Scientific publication: a mathematician's viewpoint Abstract: Digital computers have brought enormous changes in the way mathematicians work. One of them relates to an issue which sounds trivial, even though it is not: the art of mathematical typesetting died just as budget problems forced universities to cut back secretarial support. Mathematicians had to learn how to type their own…


10th Annual Cantrell Lectures

Monday, April 12, 2004 4:00p.m., Physics Bldg., Room 202 Knots and polynomials Abstract: We will describe certain invariants of knots in three dimensional space and give an impressionistic view of how they relate to physics, algebra and analysis. The notion of subfactor will be introduced. Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:00p.m., Boyd Graduate Studies, Room 328 The analytic and algebraic flavours of subfactors Abstract: Subfactors are algebras of…


11th Annual Cantrell Lectures

Monday, May 2, 2005 4:00p.m., Physics Bldg., Room 202 Basic Twistor Geometry; Physical Motivations Twistor theory is motivated by the idea that the union between space-time structure and quantum-mechanical principles may well involve non-standard quantization procedures. Two guiding principles underlying the twistor approach are holomorphicity (complex analyticity) and non-locality, these seeming to be features that an appropriate "quantized…


12th Annual Cantrell Lectures

3 lectures on human & machine learning March 22, 2006 - 3:30pm Student Learning Center 101 Title of talk: Learning & intelligence (Lecture for general audience) March 23, 2006 - 3:30pm Student Learning Center 150 Title of talk: Fast algorithms for learning March 24, 2006 - 3:30pm Student Learning Center 150 Title of talk: The competing roles of statistics & approximation     Professor Smale has made significant…
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