[Turkmath:8273] Hatırlatma: Prof. Steven Strogatz, Cornell University - İTÜ Matematik Seminer, 3 Nisan 2012 Salı

[aduran at itu.edu.tr]

Değerli Liste Üyeleri,

3 Nisan 2012 Salı günü, Cornell University'den Prof. Steven Strogatz   
aşağıdaki konuda davetli konuşma yapacaktır. İlgilenen herkesi   
aramızda görmek isteriz.

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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Steven Strogatz, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics
Cornell University

Social Networks That Balance Themselves

Abstract:
Consider a fully-connected social network of people,   companies, or  
countries, modeled as an undirected complete graph with   real numbers  
on its edges. Positive edges link friends; negative edges   link  
enemies. I'll discuss two simple models of how the edge weights   of  
such networks might evolve over time, as they seek a balanced  state   
in which "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The mathematical    
techniques involve elementary ideas from linear algebra, random    
graphs, statistical physics, and differential equations. Some    
motivating examples from international relations and social psychology  
   will also be discussed. This is joint work with Seth Marvel, Jon    
Kleinberg, and Bobby Kleinberg.

Biography:

Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied  
Mathematics at Cornell University. After graduating summa cum laude in  
mathematics from Princeton in 1980, Strogatz studied at Trinity  
College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He did his  
doctoral work in applied mathematics at Harvard, and then stayed for  
three years as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow. From  
1989 to 1994, Strogatz taught in the Department of Mathematics at MIT.  
He joined the Cornell faculty in 1994.

He has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and public  
service, including: a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the  
National Science Foundation (1990); MIT's highest teaching prize, the  
E. M. Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1991); the  
J.P. and Mary Barger '50 Teaching Award (1997), the Robert '55 and  
Vanne '57 Cowie Teaching Award (2001), the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award  
(2006), and the Swanson Teaching Award (2009), all from Cornell's  
College of Engineering; and the Communications Award from the Joint  
Policy Board for Mathematics (2007), a lifetime achievement award for  
the communication of mathematics to the general public.  In 2009 he  
was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied  
Mathematics for his "investigations of small-world networks and  
coupled oscillators and for outstanding science communication." He is  
the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), Sync (2003), and  
The Calculus of Friendship (2009).

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Tarih: 3 Nisan 2012 Salı

Saat: 15:30 - 16:30

Yer: Matematik Mühendisliği Bölümü D-203

İkramlar: 15:00 - 15:30

Düzenleyen: Ahmet Duran, aduran at itu.edu.tr

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Saygılarımla,

Ahmet Duran

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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ahmet Duran
Bölüm Başkan Yardımcısı
Matematik Mühendisliği
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
http://web.itu.edu.tr/aduran
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