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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Winter 1999 Colloquium Series

Sven de Vries, May 18, 1999
"Approximating Binary Images From Discrete X-rays"

Goong Chen, April 20, 1999
"Chaotic Vibration of the One-Dimensional Wave Equation due to Nonlinear Feedback Boundary Control"

Daoqi Yang, April 13, 1999
"Finite Elements for Elliptic Interface Problems with Strongly Discontinuous Coefficients and Solutions"

C.R. Rao, FRS, March 30, 1999
"Statistics: A Technology for the Millennium"

Mohamed Zohdy, March 16, 1999
"On Quadratic Stabilizability By Linear Feedback Control of Arbitrary Uncertain Systems"

John Birge, February 9, 1999
"Optimality Conditions for Dynamic Stochastic Programs: Applications in Finance and Scheduling"

Jennifer Zhao, January 26, 1999
"A Nonlinear Parabolic Equation Modeling Surfactant Diffusion"

Steve Wright, January 19, 1999
"Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms, and Fermat's Last Theorem:
Lessons Learned From Teaching a Mathematics Course in the Honors College"