Monday, April 6, 2015
3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Title: Mathematical modeling of sexually transmitted diseases
Speaker: Ramzi Alsallaq (New York University
Abstract: The field of HIV prevention has been shaped by the results of several individually randomized controlled trials on the efficacy of prevention interventions. Because the results of those clinical trials cannot readily...
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Friday, April 10, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: From the Jones Polynomial to Khovanov Homotopy
Speaker: Robert Lipschitz (Associate Professor, Columbia University Department of Mathematics)
Abstract: We will start by introducing some basic questions in knot theory. We will then talk about the Jones polynomial, a knot invariant from the 1980's, and how it lets...