Tentative Schedule Spring 2002
   Mathematics and Cognition Seminar

   Tuesdays 12:15 pm
GWC 604

Supported in part by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering

"Whenever there is chaos,
it creates wonderful thinking."
- Septima Clark
About this seminar

Note: 1)?represents wild guesses having been made with regards to dates, titles or speakers, 2) * represents an unusual date, time or location, 3) ! represents a joint talk with the Stochastic Modeling Seminar.
 

  Date Speaker Title
Jan 29 
 Tom Taylor, 
Department of Mathematics		 "Some remarks on the Dempster Shafer theory of evidential reasoning" 
Feb 5
 No seminar  
       12! 
 Murat Kulahci
Dept. of Industrial Engineering		 "A brief introduction to financial engineering"Abstract
 19
 John Black
President of Micrology pbt, Inc.
PhD Student, Dept of Computer Science		 "Modeling the human visual system from the bottom up, and from the top down"Abstract
26! 
 Cole Smith
Dept. of Systems and Industrial Engineering,
University of Arizona		 "Optimal design of stochastic synchronous optical networks"Abstract
March 5
 Bill Uttal,
Emeritus, Department of Industrial Engineering		 "Psychomythics"
12
 Spring Break  
           19 
 Rich Archibald
Dept of Mathematics		 "High Resolution Image Reconstruction in the Presence of Noise"Abstract
     26 ! 
 Craig Kirkwood
Supply Chain Management, College of Business		 "Formulating and solving large scale decision analysis problems"Abstract
April 2
 Root Gorelick
Dept. of Biology		 "Mathematical modeling of the effects of DNA methylation over evolutionary time"Abstract
9
 Darryl Morrell
Department of Electrical Engineering		 "Particle Filters: a Solution to Hard Problems in Navigation, Target Tracking, and Perception" Abstract
                     16! 
 Dr. Filiz Ozel
School of Architecture		 "Simulation and modeling in architecture" Abstract
                     23
 Steve Baer
Dept. of Mathematics		 "Noise Sensitivity in a Neuronal Burster: Can Small Amplitude Synaptic Noise Influence Activity-Dependent Morphological Plasticity of Dendritic Spines ?"Abstract
 30! 
 Ruth Williams
Dept. of Math, UC San Diego		 "Dynamic Scheduling for Stochastic Networks"

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