The Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) announces the winners of the Eighth Monroe H. Martin Prize (2010):
 
Professor Adam Oberman, Simon Fraser University (http://www.divbyzero.ca/oberman/wiki/Main_Page)
 and
Professor Joel A. Tropp, California Institute of Technology
http://www.acm.caltech.edu/~jtropp/
 
Please join us on Wednesday, April 13th for the Monroe H. Martin Prize Lecture in
Room # 3206 Mathematics Building (lecture room)
 
2:00 - 3:00 - Talk by Professor Joel A. Tropp
"Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing low-rank matrix decompositions"
 
3:00 - 3:30 - Light refreshments
 
3:30 - 4:30 - Talk by Professor Adam Oberman
"Discrete Geometric Game Interpretations of Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations"
 
Sponsored by:
Center for Scientific Computation & Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM),
Department of Mathematics, and
the Institute for Physical Science & Technology