CAM Colloquia - Fall 2006

Unless noted otherwise, CAM Colloquia take place at 3:30 p.m. in 655 Rhodes Hall with refreshments following the colloquium at 4:30 p.m. in 657 Rhodes Hall.

The 2006-07 Colloquium Committee is S. Strogatz, J. Hopcroft, M. Todd and A. Vladimirsky. They may be contacted at collcomm@cam.cornell.edu.

 

• Sept. 8 - Eric Friedman, ORIE, Cornell, "Scaling, Renormalization, and Universality in Combinatorial Games: the Geometry of Chomp"
• Sept .15- Note Room Change- 253 Rhodes Hall -David J.D. Earn, McMaster University, "Modeling and Manipulating Recurrent Epidemics" (Host: S. Ellner)
• Sept. 22- J. Nathan Kutz, University of Washington, "Soliton Lasers" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• Sept. 29- no seminar
• Oct. 6 - no seminar (day before Fall break)
• Oct. 13 - Amin Saberi, Stanford University, "Complex Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective" (Host: E. Tardos)
• Oct. 20- CANCELED Alan Oppenheim, MIT, "One Plus One Could Equal Three" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• Oct. 27 -Scott Williamson, Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell, "Numerical analysis as a tool for statistical inference in population genetics"
• Nov. 3- Note Room Change - 253 Rhodes Hall - Jonathan Victor, Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College, "Neural Coding and Representation of Visual Information" (Host: R. Zabih)
• Nov. 10 - Note Room Change - 253 Rhodes Hall - Steve Olson, Freelance Writer, "In Search of Our Common Ancestors"(Host: S. Strogatz)
• Nov. 17-
• Dec. 1 - Katya Scheinberg, IBM, "Developing Provably Converging and Practical Methods in Derivative Free Optimization" (Host: C. Shoemaker)
  
  
  Spring 2007 schedule