Past Events

Participants Peter Bella, Courant Katarina Bellova, Courant Mykhailo Bilogliadov, Indiana Tiancong Chen, Notre Dame Andres Contreras, Indiana Marina Danilina, Russia Finance Acad. Gung-Min Gie, Indiana Scott Greenhalgh, Guelph Makram Hamouda, Indiana...

There have recently been new results on extending various aspects of the theory of KMS states from its original context of von Neumann algebras to C*-algebras and understanding the more complex structure that arises in the C*-setting (see for example...

The use -- and misuse -- of financial derivatives has a long history, and the current crisis is not the only one in which they have been implicated. In this talk I'll tell some of these stories, and give an introduction to the mathematical ideas that...

Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, games and art such as soap bubbles, 'get your goat' (Monty Hall game), the penny game, the Set Game, the 'Game of 24', kaleidoscopes and hexaflexagons, Nim, Tower of Hanoi, the amazing...

The field of random media has been the object of intensive mathematical research over the last thirty years. It covers a variety of models, mainly from condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, and geology, where one is interested in materials...