Strongly Connected Components
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.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 5: Andrew Granville
Nov 3rd
My guest on the fifth episode of Strongly Connected Components is Professor Andrew Granville Canadian Research Chair in Number Theory at the University of Montreal. We discuss what pretentiousness means mathematically, the importance of enjoying doing mathematics, and how to use Zahod Beeblebrox in a proof. To find out more about Professor Granville’s reasearch and to read his award winning papers visit his website and you can see clips of the lecture he gave the MAA on patterns in primes here.
Welcome to our New Home
Oct 31st
Now the home of my two podcasts Strongly Connected Components and Combinations and Permutations
Episode 4: David Bressoud
Oct 28th
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