Bill Sears Colloquia - Fall 2005

The Bill Sears Club is an informal series of talks intended to give CAM students an idea of the research interests of various CAM-affiliated faculty. First and second year students are especially encouraged to attend. If you are interested in giving a presentation, please contact Jeffrey Pang (cp229cornell.edu)

All Bill Sears colloquia take place on Tuesdays in 657 Rhodes Hall, with pizza served beforehand.

• Tuesday, Oct. 18 - 1:30-2:00, Professor Rick Durrett , Mathematics Department
  Most of Professor Durrett's research is in the general area of probability theory. At the moment, his favourite topics are spatial models
  that arise from questions in ecology, and use of probability models to understand the DNA sequence evolution. http://www.math.cornell.edu/~durrett/
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 8 - 12:40-1:10, Prof Charles Van Loan, CS Department
  Prof Charles Van Loan has worked in the area of matrix computations and have written papers on various eigenvalue, least squares, and linear equation problems, and is particularly interested in matrix problems that arise in signal processing and control theory. Currently, he is the Chair of the CS department, and is teaching CS621 this semester. You can learn more about him and among other things, his experience with his seventh grade geography instructor in his webpage http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cv/default.htm.
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 29 - 12:40-1:10, Prof. Tim Healey, TAM
  http://www.tam.cornell.edu/Healey.html