[BANANA] LAPACK seminar next week

[Ming Gu]

               Math 290, Section 16, CS 298, Section 6,
                          Spring 2008
         (Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing)

We meet WEDNESDAYS 11:10 - noon in Room 380 Soda Hall, Berkeley campus.
The coordinators are Profs. J. Demmel (demmel at cs.berkeley.edu), 
M. Gu (mgu at math.berkeley.edu), and B. N. Parlett (parlett at math.berkeley.edu). 
The program will be a mixture of research talks and tutorials.
The tutorials will provide a partial sequel to Math 221.

Date: Feb. 13
Speaker: Alberto Grunbaum 
Title: Spectral analysis for simple urn models, Ehrenfest, Laplace-Bernoulli 
       and their relatives.

Abstract: Some classical (and not so classical) models in statistical mechanics
can be analyzed completely because of some (probably undeserved)
linear algebra miracles.