MenuEvents for 10/04/2017 from all calendars
Student Working Seminar in Groups and Dynamics
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: BLOC 624
Speaker: Konrad Wróbel
Title: Shannon's Entropy I
Abstract: I'll begin working through Shannon's classical paper on Entropy and information theory.
Full Committee P Meeting
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: BLOC 220
Description: All Full Professors
AMUSE
Time: 6:00PM - 00:00AM
Location: BLOC 220
Speaker: Dr. Peter Howard, Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematcis
Title: The Mathematics of Games of Chance
Abstract: Following early work by the Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer, and all around sketchy character Gerolamo Cardano, the classical theory of probability was developed in large part as an uneasy collaboration between professional gamblers such as Antoine Gombaud, and a coterie of brilliant French noblemen looking for just about any excuse to prove how smart they were (I'm looking at you, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace). In this talk, I'll give an overview of the early development of probability theory, and talk about applications to games of chance such as Roulette and Blackjack. Texas Hold'em will be mentioned as an invitation to study game theory.
