Bill Sears Colloquia - Spring 2000
All Bill Sears colloquia take place every other Monday from 3-3:30 in the conference room in 280 Rhodes Hall, with refreshments served beforehand in 657 Rhodes Hall.
- February 15 - Gregery Buzzard,
Math, "Henon Maps and Holomorphic Motions"
- February 22 - Thanos Avramidis,
ORIE, "Efficiency Improvements for Pricing American Options with a Stochastic Mesh"
- February 29 - Rick Durrett,
Math, "Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome. How many are there? How many will Celera find?"
- March 7 - Venu Veeravalli,
Electrical Engineering, "Optimizing Wireless Communication Systems"
- March 27 - Michael Todd,
ORIE, "Possibly Infeasible Linear Programming Problems"
- April 4 - Terrence L. Fine,
Electrical Engineering, Department of Statistical Science, and Center for Applied Math, "Research on Sensor Arrays"
- April 11 - Richard Rand,
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, "Capture Sequences in Systems with Two Double Heteroclinic Orbits"