SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

“Making Words Count: Creative Writing and the Mathematical Imagination”
**THIS EVENT ONLY WAS CANCELLED DUE TO UNIVERSITY CLOSURE.
Tuesday, March 14, at Bethe House
6:00pm Dinner ⋅ 7:15pm Talk
Open to all west campus.
In conversation with Kathryn Mann (Professor, Cornell Dept. of Math) for a wide-ranging discussion about mathematics, creative writing, and effective communication.

“From mosquitoes to ChatGPT — the birth and strange life of the random walk”
An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote public event
Wednesday, March 15, at 5:00pm
Statler Hall, Room 196 (adjacent to the Park atrium)
Open to all.
Abstract: Between 1905 and 1910 the idea of the random walk, now ever-present in applied math, was invented simultaneously and independently by multiple people in multiple countries for completely different purposes, from mosquito control to physics to finance to winning a theological argument (really!) Professor Ellenberg will tell some part of this story and also gesture at ways that random walks (or Markov processes, named after the theological arguer) underlie current thinking about artificial intelligence. This talk will be non-technical but should have something new to offer even if you already know what a Markov process is.

“Sets, cards, fields, progressions, ranks, lines and triangles”
Kieval Lecture Series
Thursday, March 16, at 4:30pm
253 Malott Hall
Refreshments will be served prior to the lecture at 4:00pm in 532 Malott Hall.
Open to all. Aimed at undergraduate students.

All events are cosponsored by the Dept. of Math.

Ravi Ramakrishna (Professor, Dept. of Math) serves as faculty host.
Steve Strogatz (Professor, Dept. of Math) serves as faculty co-host.