Attention mathletes and those far smarter than me: It’s time for the University of Louisville Math Department’s Annual Bullitt Lecture.
I wish I could lie to you and say that I have some understanding of what this year’s lecturer Bernd Sturmfels of the University of California, Berkeley will be talking about. I can’t though because I haven’t a clue. I’m told that Professor Sturmfels is “a major innovator in mathematical methods for optimization with applications towards biology and statistics.” That sentence alone intimidates the heck out of me. I barely got through college algebra. As I said though, this post is for those of you far smarter than I am in the math arena.
His topic will be “Tropical Mathematics”, presenting an unusual and useful, but simple, modification of conventional arithmetic operations which is of tremendous use in solving a wide variety of optimization problems ranging from industrial engineering to gene sequencing.
Thursday March 25, 2010
6PM
Free and open to the public
Strickler Hall 101 (Middleton Auditorium)
University of Louisville
Belknap campus
March 22, 2010
Education, Lecture, UofL