Fractal mystique: The Buddhabrot
A Buddhabrot rendering of
the Mandelbrot set
Image courtesy of Paul Bourke

MathAcrossCampus is a quarterly colloquium series at the University of Washington to showcase applications of mathematics, with a special emphasis on the growing role of discrete methods in math applications. The goal of this seminar is to expose theoreticians to applied work, to create a community of mathematicians and users of mathematics at UW, and to serve as a guide to students and researchers looking for projects and jobs in math-related areas by offering exposure to ongoing math applications in the Seattle area.

This website, in addition to providing information about the MathAcrossCampus colloquium series, also serves as a central repository for cross-campus information such as interdisciplinary courses, departmental colloquia, and other math-related events of interest to multiple departments.

Upcoming public lecture

Thursday, June 4, 2009, 3:30 – 4:30pm in Kane Hall 210, reception to follow

Andrew Gelman (short biography), Columbia University
Professor: Statistics; Political Science
Director: Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University

Coalitions, voting power, and political instability

Professor Gelman will also be speaking Friday, June 5, 2009, 9:45 – 11:00am in Kane Hall 225 for the Conference on Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington.

Combinatorial Optimization at Work (Sep 21 &ndash Oct 9, 2009)
Special course at TU Berlin taught by Professor Martin Grötschel, the Winter 2009 MAC Colloquium speaker

Organizers and contact information

The organizers of MathAcrossCampus for the 2008–2009 academic year are Rekha Thomas, Ioana Dumitriu, Christopher Hoffman (Winter 2009), and Nathaniel Blair-Stahn.

Send email to [enable JavaScript to view email address, or contact the organizers directly] if you would like us to post an announcement or add a link to your event, or if you have any other questions or comments.

The first year of this project (2008–2009) is funded by the NSF VIGRE grant shared by the departments of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics. The VIGRE graduate fellows assisting with MathAcrossCampus in 2008–2009 are: Sean Holman and Kurt Luoto (Mathematics); Christopher Curtis and Libby MacKinnon (Applied Mathematics); and Nicholas Basch (Statistics).