Strongly Connected Components
Episode 13: Ivars Peterson
Mar 11th
(via etsu.edu)
On today’s episode Samuel Hansen has a conversation with noted mathematical journalist, Director of Publications and Communications for the Mathematical Association of America, and, most importantly, the Mathematical Tourist Ivars Peterson. You can find out more about Ivars Peterson on his website and can find his columns at the MAA.
Episode 12: Brian Conrey
Mar 2nd
(via aimmath.org)
For today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen called up director of the American Institute of Mathematics Brian Conrey. Together they talked about the AIM library, whymath circles and square mathematicians are a good thing, and just what the math castle is. To find out more about Brian Conrey visit his website and to find out more about AIM just click here.
Video of the Castle
Strongly Connected Components Episode 11: Joseph Gallian
Feb 9th
Joseph Gallian is a Mathematics Professor at the university of Minnesota-Duluth. Samuel Hanse spoke with him at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco about his text book Contemporary Abstract Algebra, the mathematics movie Hard Problems he executive produced, how he cracked the Driver’s License code, and more about the Beatles than you could think would be on a math podcast. You can find out more about Professor Gallian at his website.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 10: Richard Stanley
Feb 3rd
Samuel Hansen caught up with professor Richard Stanley at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, where they talked about the colloquium lectures he was to give, over 100 different definitions of the Catalan Numbers, and just what the path is from wanting to be a ventriloquist to becoming a mathematician. You can find Professors Stanly’s foundational book on Enumerative Combinatorics here and find out more about him at his website.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 9: Steve Strogatz
Jan 26th
Samuel Hansen spoke with Steven Strogatz from Cornell University at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco where Professor Strogatz presented a talk about his fantastic(review soon to come) new book The Calculus of Friendship. They spoke about: Breadth versus Depth, what a friendship based on mathematics can be, and Samuel even gets Steven to retell a Radio Lab story. To find out more about Steven Strogatz please visit his website.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 8: Olga Holtz
Jan 18th
Olga Holtz is a professor at University of California Berkley and Technischen Universität Berlin. Samuel Hansen spoke with Professor Holtz at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco, California where she was an invited speaker. They discussed: her talk in Zonotopal Algebra, the difference between working in the USA and Germany, and the bottleneck of communication. You can find out more about Professor Holtz by visiting her webpage.
Joint Mathematics Meeting
Jan 12th
Very early tomorrow morning I will be boarding a plane to take me to San Francisco so that I can attend the Joint Mathematics Meeting. I will be presenting a talk about the effect the internet is having on mathematics at 1 PM on Thursday, so if you will be at the JMM and you have the time free I would love to see you at my talk after which please make sure you say hello. If you do not have the opportunity to see my talk please send me a message on the ACMEScience twitter or come to the JMM Tweetup on Thursday 2030 , 14 Jan 2010 in the San Francisco Marriott Lobby. In other ACMEScience news I have lined up a few interviews at the conference with mathematicians you want to hear for Strongly Connected components so check your feed for those over the next few weeks. Hope to see you there.
Sorry, but Tryptophan is More Important
Nov 25th
As I am sure that most, but probably not all, of you know it is thanksgiving week here in the US. The week where we all decide to test the tnesile strenth of our pant’s waistbands and try to integrate the curve of a turkey in order to make sure we have enough meat to feed everyone. For me this is a big family holiday so I am about to hop on a plane and fly east for a few hours so that I can spend it with them. The reason that I happen to be telling all of you this is that it means that there will be no Strongly Connected Components or Combinations and Permutations this week. I am sorry for any inconvenience this happens to cause any of you, but family, and tryptophan, comes first. Thanks for your understanding and I can’t wait to get back to you with more great audio about mathematics.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 7: Joshua Cooper
Nov 18th
The guest on today’s program is Professor Joshua Cooper from the University of South Carolina. He and your host Samuel Hansen discuss: the private sector vs. the academic, just how proofs are important in child rearing, how roto-routers and liars are connected. To find out more about Joshua Cooper please visit his website.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 6: Lance Fortnow
Nov 11th
On today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components I speak with Lance Fortnow, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University and founder/co-author of the Computational Complexity Blog. We discuss just what computational Complexity is, P vs. NP, economics and computational complexity, as well as how the internet is helping to build better scientific communities; oh and twitter gets a shout-out to. To find out more about Professor Fortnow please visit his webpage, his blog , and definitely follow his twitter.
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