ColloquiaSteve Smale, University of California, Berkeley - Wednesday, May 15

[Margery Ishmael]

Wednesday, May 15, 2002
2:30 pm
Ryerson 251

Talk by STEVE SMALE
University of California at Berkeley
http://math.berkeley.edu/~smale/

"Learning Theory and the Evolution of Language"

No abstract available at this time.

Bio: Professor Smale received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 
1957, and within four years became a full Professor at Columbia University. 
In 1964, he became Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He 
is also a Professor at City University of Hong Kong.

He has made significant contributions in the fields of dynamic systems, 
geometry, econometrics, operational research, topology, and mathematical 
theory of computer science. These contributions have resulted in a number 
of academic awards and achievements including his holding of the Alfred 
Sloan Research Fellowship from 1960-62. In 1966 he won a Fields Medal - an 
international medal awarded once every four years for outstanding 
discoveries in mathematics. Other awards he received include the 1965 
Veblen Prize for Geometry, awarded every five years by the American 
Mathematical Society; in 1988 the Chauvenet Prize by the Mathematical 
Association of America; and in 1989 the Von Neumann Award by the Society 
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Professor Smale is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recognized internationally 
in many fields of Mathematics, and has been invited as a Visiting Professor 
to College de France, Paris (Spring 1962), University of Paris, Orsay 
(1972-73), Yale University (Fall 1974), and Columbia University (Fall 1987).

Host: Partha Niyogi

*The talk will be followed by refreshments in Ryerson 255*

Persons who need assistance should call 773.834.8977

If you wish to meet the speaker, please send e-mail to marge at cs.uchicago.edu

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Margery Ishmael
Secretary to the Chairman, Department of Computer Science
The University of Chicago
tel. 773.834.8977  fax. 773.702.8487
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