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Thanks to all who attended this year's ASU Math Awareness Events!
Thursday, April 22
- 4:30pm
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Math & Stats Barbecue
Join us for a barbecue social gathering in the courtyard bounded on the
north and west by PSA, on the south by Tyler Mall, and on the east by
the line y = 2x + 1. Tickets are on sale at the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics front desk (PSA 216).
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6:00pm, Murdock 201
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ASU MAM Public Lecture
Chaos
Chaos affects many aspects of our lives. Chaos as an area of science is
quite similar to the chaos in our lives.
In this lecture, which is intended for a general audience,
Professor James A. Yorke
will discuss several examples,
including pendulums and spacecraft trajectories.
Professor Yorke is the
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics
at University of Maryland, College Park.
His current research projects range from chaos theory and
weather prediction and genome research to the population dynamics of
the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He is perhaps best known to the general public
for coining the mathematical term "chaos" with T.Y. Li in a 1975 paper
entitled "Period Three Implies Chaos". Professor Yorke has coauthored
three books on chaos, has supervised approximately 30 Ph.D. dissertations,
and has coauthored roughly 300 scholarly articles. He was awarded the
Japan Prize for Science and Technology in 2003.
Undergraduate Research Awards
Professor Yorke's talk will be preceded by a brief presentation, at which the
recipients of this year's Undergraduate Research Awards will be announced.
Friday, April 23
- 3:40pm, PSF 166 (Note the new location.)
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ASU MAM Colloquium
Modelling the Infectiousness of HIV-AIDS
Professor James A. Yorke
Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract:
The difficulty of conducting experiments with HIV means that we must
use mathematical tools to distill an understanding of what is going on
around us. We reach conclusions about the infectiousness that are at
odds with published analyses. Our conclusions explain why HIV, which
began in Africa, broke out in a large epidemic in the US gay population
a dozen years before the big African outbreak.
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