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Title: <\/strong>Wallis and Landen: A Tale of two integrals<\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Victor Moll, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University<\/p>\n

Abstract: <\/strong>Victor Moll Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n

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I was born in Santiago, Chile during the last millenium, on October 31st. My father was a doctor in a small town. I must have been bothering my family, so they put me to school at an early age. My first mathematical mentor was Maria Pardo, who recognized that I had some talent for Mathematics. Since this came easy, I spent most of my middle and high school years trying to learn some more. The other subjects suffered.
\nAfter high-school, liking Mathematics, I enrolled in an Engineering School. Not a good idea. But since one could transfer to study Mathematics, everything worked out fine. After graduation, since PhD\u2019s in Math were rare in Chile, I was hired as a faculty member of Universidad Santa Maria (not a catholic school, this is the last name of some rich chilean person). In 1980 I left for New York City, to begin my graduate education at the Courant Institute of NYU. I was interested in Number Theory and this is one of the best places for Applied Mathematics. Talk about being clueless. There I met my wife, Lisa Fauci, then also a student. (She is the former president of SIAM and has a large collections of well-deserved awards). We both got positions at Tulane University in 1986. We figure we will try New Orleans for a year or two. Never left.
\nMy PhD thesis was in the stability of waves for a model for nerve conduction. Did that until I got tenure. After tenure I spent a sabbatical to finish writing a book on Elliptic Curves (jointly with my advisor, Henry McKean). Then a piece of luck: a first year graduate student (George Boros) told me that he could compute an integral. Not impressed, I tried Mathematica and it was unable to find the answer. This changed my research area. I have been computing integrals since then. Have written a variety of papers on this and three books (at diverse levels). I am currently the scientific editor of the table by Gradshteyn and Ryzhik, one of the most used tables in the world.
\nI enjoy working with undergraduate and graduate students, professional colleagues and amateurs. I have been part of REU programs such as SIMU (in Puerto Rico), MSRI-UP (at Berkeley) and a variety of summer programs at Tulane. Lately I have been participating in programs aimed at faculty coming from institutions with high teaching load (Park City, Utah and ICERM, at Brown). My latest projects involves a new method called \u201dThe method of brackets\u201d, invented by my collaborator Ivan Gonzalez, a professor of Physics in Valparaiso, Chile. Our works deals with the evaluation of Feynman diagrams, coming in the description of elementary particles. To me, this is the last leg of a cycle. As a high school student, I wanted to study Particle Physics. 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