Thursdays from 02:30pm to 03:30pm in MB113
This is a bi-weekly series of lectures "Initiation in Mathematics" by Penn State research faculty and visitors. It is a component of the new "pre-MASS" (PMASS) program aimed at freshman/sophomore level students, but everybody is welcome to attend. The lectures will be broad in scope and not very technical.
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 2012 | Mark Levi, The Pennsylvania State University | Physical discoveries and proofs of mathematical theorems |
| 9 Feb 2012 | Jana Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL, Uruguay | Lake fish population estimates and mixing properties |
| 23 Feb 2012 | Jan Reimann, The Pennsylvania State University | The Continuum Hypothesis |
| 15 Mar 2012 | Eugene Wayne, Boston University | The Navier-Stokes equations |
| 22 Mar 2012 | Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago | The first digit |
| 5 Apr 2012 | John Roe, The Pennsylvania State University | Being right more often can make you more wrong |
| 19 Apr 2012 | Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University | Commutative and Noncommutative Symmetric Functions |
| 30 Aug 2012 | To Be Announced |