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Upcoming Events

Oct
17
Poincaré Lecture
Date4:00 PM
Location
380Y
Speaker
Mark Levi (Penn State)

The seemingly magical ability of a spinning top to stay upright fascinated people for many thousands of years and in many civilizations. Clay spinning tops dated to about 6,000 years ago were excavated in Iraq.  And for all these millenia another similarly counterintuitive…

Oct
29
Public Lecture
Date7:30 PM
Location
CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford University
Speaker
Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London)

Computers are now better than humans at logical games and puzzles such as Sudoku, Chess, Go and so on. Mathematics can also be framed as a logical puzzle game. When will computers become better than humans at developing new mathematics and proving new theorems? Certainly this has not happened…