- 12:45 p.m.
- Campus Tour
- A Mies Society Campus Tour will leave MTCC at 12:45 p.m.
- The following events (from 1:45–6 p.m.) all take place in the McCloska Ballroom, MTCC
- 1:45 p.m.
- Memories of Karl Menger–Reception
- Join in as alumni and friends tell their stories of Professor Karl Menger.
- 2:35pm
- Viewing of 2008 Student Research Posters
- 3:15pm
- Recent Applied Mathematics Department Research Advances
- Presentation by a professor and student
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- 4 :30 pm
- Lecture: "Computing numerically with functions instead of numbers" delivered by Professor Lloyd N. Trefethen, Fellow of Balliol College at Oxford University.
- Nick Trefethen is Professor of Numerical Analysis and head
of the Numerical Analysis Group at Oxford University. He
was educated at Harvard and Stanford and held professorial
positions at NYU, MIT, and Cornell before 1997. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society and a member
of the US National Academy of Engineering.
As an author he is known for his books Numerical Linear
Algebra (1997), Spectral Methods in MATLAB (2000), Schwarz-Christoffel Mapping (2002), and Spectra and Pseudospectra
(2005). He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, with about
90 journal publications in numerical analysis and applied
mathematics, and has served as editor for many of the
leading numerical analysis journals. He has lectured in
about 15 countries and 25 American states, including invited
lectures at both ICM and ICIAM congresses.
Some of Trefethen's recent activities include the SIAM
100-Dollar, 100-Digit Challenge, the notion of Ten Digit
Algorithms ("ten digits, five seconds, and just one page"),
the chebfun system for numerical computation with functions
instead of numbers, and a book in preparation called
Neoclassical Numerics.
- 5:40pm
- Presentation of the IIT Karl Menger Award for exceptional scholarship by a student
- 6 p.m.
- Dinner
- Pritzker Club, MTCC
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Out-of-state travelers: for questions or hotel suggestions, please call 312.567.3132
Campus Maps (including a Parking Map), Directions to IIT, and Transportation
Discounted Hotels for IIT visitors (Best Westerns are the best bet, followed by the Hyatt Regency McCormick), or
try Club Quarters (we've been told $129/night; tell them you are with "Illinois Institute of Technology")
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| In the Fall 2006 Newsletter, we requested students of Karl Menger to share their memories. Here are some that we received:
Anton Zettl
Werner Frank
John W. Neuberger
William Mahavier
Richard Swanson
Lester Senechal
Thomas Erber
Phyllis Kittel
George R. Marousek
Felix Rosenthal (1)
Felix Rosenthal (2)
To add your memories to this list, email newsletter AT math DOT iit.edu or call 312.567.5344.
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