MathAcrossCampus Colloquium

A Buddhabrot rendering of the Mandelbrot set. Image courtesy of Paul Bourke.

This year a new series of colloquia is being organized by two professors and a graduate student from our department: Rekha Thomas, Ioana Dumitriu, and Nathaniel Blair-Stahn. Called MathAcrossCampus, the series is designed to showcase applications of mathematics, with a special emphasis on the growing role of discrete methods. The goal of this quarterly colloquium 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 in the Seattle area. The first lecture, by Professor Joseph Felsenstein of the Department of Genome Sciences, was on “Evolutionary trees, coalescents, and gene trees: can mathematicians find the woods?”

For information about further events in the MathAcrossCampus series, see the official website.