IP: for Bay area (San Fran/SV area) ipers Forsythe Lectures

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:20:59 -0800
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Dennis Allison <allison () shasta stanford edu>
> Subject: Forsythe Lectures
>
> This might be of interest to IPers on the West Coast.  -dra
>
> > From: Peche Turner <peche () sunburn stanford edu>
> > Subject: Forsythe Lectures
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The annual George and Sandra Forsythe Memorial Lectures will be held next
> > Monday and Tuesday.  This year's speaker is Margaret Wright of Bell Labs,
> > Lucent Technologies.  All are invited to attend.
> >
> > Monday, March 13,  7:30 p.m., HP Auditorium, Gates B-01
> > "A Computer Science Concoction: Secrets, Wildcats and the Best of
> > Everything."  Her talk will illustrate how computer science
> > research encompasses a wide array of disparate topics.
> >
> > Tuesday, March 14, 4:15 p.m., HP Auditorium, Gates B-01
> >  "Dispatches from the Interior-Point Revolution."
> > She will offer an opinionated survey of classical material and  recent
> > research about interior methods for linear, nonlinear and semidefinite
> > programming.
> >
> > Margaret Wright holds three Stanford degrees: a bachelor's in mathematics,
> > and master's and doctoral degrees in computer science. She was elected to
> > the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.