G. Milton Wing Lectures
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Fall 2018
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Prof. Keenan Crane
Carnegie Mellon University
October 17 - 19, 2018
Spring 2018
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Prof. Robert J. Lang
April 4-6, 2018 -
Prof. Manuela Campanelli
Rochester Institute of Technology
March 5-7, 2018
Fall 2017
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Prof. Moon Duchin
Tufts University
October 2 - 3, 2017
Spring 2017
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Prof. Catherine Sulem, F.R.S.C
University of Toronto
April 5 - 7, 2017
Spring 2017
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Prof. William Stein
University of Washington and SageMath, Inc.
February 8 - 10, 2017
Fall 2016
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Prof. Emeritus Doris Schattschneider
Moravian College
November 20 – 22The Escher exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery runs from Nov 13 through January 29.
Spring 2016
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Donald Saari
University of California at Irvine
April 19 - 20 -
Simon Levin
Princeton University
March 31 - April 1
Fall 2015
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Lani Wu and Steven Altschuler
University of California, San Francisco
October 22 - 23-
Symmetry Breaking in Yeast: Can Mathematics Provide Novel Biological Insights?
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Cellular Heterogeneity: Differences That Make a Difference in Cancer and Drug Treatment
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Kevin Short
University of New Hampshire
October 7 - 8-
The Math Behind the Music
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Cupolets in Chaos, Not Verse
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Spring 2015
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Bernd Sturmfels
University of California, Berkeley
April 8 - 10-
Tropical Mathematics
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Beyond Linear Algebra
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Exponential Varieties
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Jesse Johnson
Google, Inc. and Oklahoma State University
March 25 - 27-
Hidden Geometry in Modern (Big) Data Analysis
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From Discrete to Continuous: Inferring Scale and Topology
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Applying Geometric Intuition to Data Analysis
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Fall 2014
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Susan Landau
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
October 22 - 24-
What’s Significant in the NSA Revelations
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Cryptography and Privacy — and the Role for Mathematicians
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Lawrence Washington
University of Maryland
September 30 - October 2-
Cannonballs, Donuts, and Secrets: An Introduction to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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Manipulating Encrypted Data
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The Mathematics behind Quantum Computing
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Spring 2014
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Hubert Bray
Duke University
April 23 - 25-
From Pythagoras to Einstein: The Geometry of Space and Time
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On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large-Scale Geometry of the Universe
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Black Holes and the Monotonicity of the Hawking Mass for Time Flat Surfaces
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Leon Glass
McGill University
April 2 - 4-
Chaotic Music and Fractal Art: A Glimpse into the Neurophysiology of Aesthetics
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Dynamical Disease: From Theory to Practical Applications
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Evolution and Robustness in Gene Networks
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Fall 2013
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Gilbert Strang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 14 - 15-
Online Instruction and Random Triangles
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Tridiagonal Matrices : Their Exponentials and Completions
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Ken Golden
University of Utah
September 26 - 27-
Mathematics and the melting polar ice caps
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Homogenization for Sea Ice
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Spring 2013
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Mauro Maggioni
Duke University
April 17 - 18-
Geometry and Analysis of High-Dimensional Data
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Multiscale Methods for High-Dimensional Data and Graphs
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Gunnar Carlsson
Stanford University
March 21 - 22-
The Shape of Data
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Persistent Homology with Examples
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Generalized Persistence and Mapping Data
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Fall 2012
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Tony DeRose
Pixar Animation Studios
October 3 - 4-
How Mathematics Has Changed Hollywood
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Wavelets in Computer Graphics
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Spring 2012
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Adrien Treuille
Carnegie Mellon University
March 7 - 8-
Interactive Biology
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New Approaches to Modeling and Control of Complex Dynamics
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Fall 2009
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Robert Ghrist
University of Pennsylvania
October 21 - 23-
Mathematical Sensors
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Euler Calculus for Data
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Algebraic Topology in the Engineering Sciences
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