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Sunday, October 14, 2018
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Monday, October 15, 2018
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October 15, 2018 -Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Hopper Bands: The Role of Intermittent Motion, Alignment, Attraction and Repulsion (Andrew J. Bernoff, HMC)
Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Hopper Bands: The Role of Intermittent Motion, Alignment, Attraction and Repulsion (Andrew J. Bernoff, HMC)
Locust swarms pose a major threat to agriculture, notably in northern Africa and the Middle East. In the early stages of aggregation, locusts form hopper bands. These are coordinated groups […]
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
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October 16, 2018 -The Bateman—Horn Conjecture, Part I: heuristic derivation (Stephan Garcia, Pomona)
The Bateman—Horn Conjecture, Part I: heuristic derivation (Stephan Garcia, Pomona)
The Bateman—Horn Conjecture is a far-reaching statement about the distribution of the prime numbers. It implies many known results, such as the Green—Tao theorem, and a variety of famous conjectures, […]
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
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October 17, 2018 -Great Expectations (Matthew Junge, Duke Univ.)
Great Expectations (Matthew Junge, Duke Univ.)
The mean of a random quantity is supposed to confirm our expectations. What happens when it defies them? We will look at a few famous expected values; some old, some […]
Thursday, October 18, 2018
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Friday, October 19, 2018
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
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