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Ron Graham is a well known mathematician (wrote the "Concrete Math"
book with Knuth). (He is also a close associate of Erdoch--according
to a popular bio of Erdoch.. and not surprisingly has an erdoch number 
of 1). He will be delivering the math awareness lecture
tomorrow. It is likely to be fun for most CS students.

Rao
[Apr 11, 2001]

ps: here is a page on Ron Graham http://math.ucsd.edu/~fan/ron/

Title: FW: Ron Graham Thursday

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Subject: Ron Graham Thursday

Hello.

A few more details on Thursday's Math Awareness Lecture:

Speaker: Dr. Ron Graham, UCSD

Title: Searching for the Shortest Network

Time:  Thursday, April 12, 7:00pm

Place: Murdock 201, NW Corner of Palm Walk and Orange Street

Abstract: Suppose you are given some set of cities and you would like
to connect them all together with a network with the shortest possible
length. How hard is it to find such a short network? This classical
problem has challenged mathematicians for nearly two centuries, and today
has great relevance in such diverse areas as telecommunication networks,
design of VLSI chips, and molecular phylogenetics. In this talk we will
summarize past accomplishments, present activities, and future challenges
in this fascinating topic.

Refreshments will be served outside the lecture hall after the talk.


Steve Kaliszewski
Colloquium & Math Awareness Committee


PS!

Wednesday, April 18: Special Math Awareness Colloquium by Dr. Cindy
Greenwood.  Party afterwards at Cindy's house!

Commemorative Math Awareness T-shirts are on sale now!

For details and up-to-the-minute information on all our Math Awareness
events, consult the web site at <http://math.la.asu.edu/~mam>! 

______________________________________________________________________

  Steve Kaliszewski-Department of Mathematics-Arizona State University
  kaliszewski@asu.edu                      http://math.la.asu.edu/~kaz