The Perks
One of the biggest advantages of being in school (while most of your friends are graduating soon) is the immense opportunity to learn at all times. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Science center at SFU has lined up a list of high profile speakers over the next few months.
They are: Jesper Lutzen, Efim Zelmanov, David Brillinger, Craig Evans, Herbert Wilf, John Mason, Paul Seymour, George Papanicolau, Christos H. Papadimitriou and Marsha Berger.
As always, I’ll be writing about the “take home message” from these talks. For those at SFU, these will be held in the IRMACS center as usual.
[...] Prof. Gilbert Strang had come to SFU as part of the distinguished speakers series (as I had written earlier.) After the talk, I got a chance to chat with the guru. I owe a lot of my understanding of linear [...]