Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series

A Research Problem that Just Won’t Quit

John Bardsley

In this talk, I will present an overview of a research topic that I have been pursuing, off and on, for seven years. In that time, I have approached the problem from a number of angles—theoretically, computationally, and statistically—and it has borne, and continues to bear, nice fruit. My main goal will be to keep the discussion accessible to a broad audience for as long as possible, always motivating the various explorations from a point of view grounded in intuition, pragmatism, and/or an appreciation for beauty that seems to me to distinguish the mathematician among scientists. In light of the former two, I will motivate the problem from its primary application in image processing.

Monday, 10 November 2008 3:10 p.m. in Math 103 4:00 p.m. Refreshments in Math Lounge 109

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