Description Based on the work of John H. Conway 鈥淥n Numbers and Games鈥. The talk discusses the methods of Dedekind and Khinchin constructing the real numbers. Both assume the existence of some other...
SpeakerDan ApleyNorthwestern Universityhttp://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~apley/ Description Kriging has emerged as the method of choice for metamodeling engineering response surfaces generated via...
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
Description In topology (an area of mathematics which can be viewed as an abstraction of geometry) one doesn't distinguish between spaces which can be continuously deformed into each other...
Description In the early to mid 1980's a notation for describing both simple and complex juggling patterns was invented and is now known as "site swap" notation. This notation, which was developed by...
Speaker Robert Krawcyk IIT Architecture Description The structures in nature are great lessons for human study. Having been in development for several billion years, only the most successful...
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
SpeakerRobert EisenbergRush Universityhttp://www.phys.rush.edu/RSEisenberg/physioeis.html Description An important class of biological molecules鈥攑roteins called ionic channels鈥攃onduct ions (like Na+...
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
SpeakerBo DengUniversity of Nebraska - Lincolnhttp://www.math.unl.edu/~bdeng1/ Description If we conceptually think DNA replication as a communication channel when DNA bases are replicated one at a...
