Meeting Agenda



Date:	June 2nd, 2004
Location:	DC 2303 (lab)
Time:	2:30 PM
Sofabeing:	Robert Kroeger

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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3. Forthcoming


Date:	June 9	June 16	June 23	June 30
Location:	DC1304	DC2303	DC2303	DC1304
Chair:	Celine Latulipe	Erin Lester	Robin Liu	Stephen Mann
Technical Presentation:	Rob Kroeger	Celine Latulipe	Erin Lester	Yi Lin

4. Technical Presentation



Craig Kaplan

Title: What's so nonstandard about Nonstandard Analysis?

Abstract: Calculus as it is taught today is usually built upon an infrastructure of epsilons and deltas. Though this approach (the bane of many first year math students) has been around for a long time, it is not the first or the only method of constructing a framework for analysis.

In this talk I will give some of the history of calculus, focusing on its original development using infinitesimals, the demise of that approach, and its very recent rebirth in the form of Nonstandard Analysis.

5. General Discussion Items

DC1304 not available for lab meeting on: June 2, June 16, June 23, Aug 25. Please keep this until that time.

6. Action List

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 3:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5136: #1: Romy Shioda; #2: Hua Wei: -- #1: Algorithm for Cardinality Constrained Quadratic Optimization; #2: Numerical Stability in Interior Point Method for Linear Programming
Friday, 4 June 2004, 10:00AM - Computer Science , DC 1331: Yann d'Halluin, PhD Candidate: -- "Numerical Methods for Real Options in Telecommunications"
Friday, 4 June 2004, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158: David M. Jackson: -- A combinatorial approach to Hurwitz's Problem; Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara: -- TBA