Spencer Talks
We are proud to announce the fifteenth annual
Spencer and Spencer talk on
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at 7:00 p.m.
in room 118 of the Social Sciences Building. (Building 11 on the
north campus map.)
This year our speaker is
Professor Hal Berghel from the University of Nevada
whose talk is titled
"Cyber Warfare: Stuxnet and Beyond"
(brochure for the talk)
Prior Talks
| Name |
Topic |
Date |
|
|
|
|
Dr. Charles Chui |
"A Thousand Pictures Are Worth a Million Words:
Mathematical Challenges" |
May 2, 2011 |
|
Dr. Ramalingam Chellappa |
"Recent Advances in Face Recognition" |
May 3, 2010 |
|
Dr. Neal Koblitz |
"What Mathematics Can and Cannot Contribute to Cryptography" |
April 28, 2009 |
|
Dr. Hyman Bass |
"Improving U.S. Mathematics Education: Myths and Realities" |
April 21, 2008 |
| Dr. Richard Stallman |
"The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System" |
April 23, 2007 |
| Dr. Robert Hogg |
"Probability and Life" |
April 24, 2006 |
| Dr. William Dunham |
"A Tribute to Euler" |
May 5, 2005 |
| Dr. Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan |
"Large Interacting Systems and their Scaling Limits" |
May 5, 2004 |
| Dr. David Goldberg |
"The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms" |
May 8, 2003 |
| Dr. Bruce Berndt |
"The Life and Notebooks of India's Greatest Mathematician, Srinvasa Ramanujan" |
May 7, 2002 |
| Dr. Thomas Banchoff |
"The Internet and the Fourth Dimension" |
April 23, 2001 |
| Keith Devlin |
"The Math Gene: How Did Human Acquire the Ability ot do Mathematics" |
May 4, 2000 |
| Constance Reid |
"The Life of Julia Robinson" |
May 4, 1999 |
| Dr. Philip Davis |
"The Spiral of Theodorus" |
May 6, 1998 |
Pictures
We also have some pictures from the talks in
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002,
2003,
2005,
2006, and
2009.