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Distinguished Lecture Series: "The Beauty of Computing and Mathematics", organized by IAS / CSE / MATH at HKUST Distinguished Lecture Guest Speaker: Prof Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego Date: 18nd May 2007 PageRank is one of the main ways for determining the ranking of Webpages by Web search engines. In this talk, we will give an overview of recent developments on PageRank. In particular, we will discuss the interplay between several areas of mathematics and some of the surprising properties of PageRank. Prof Fan Chung received a B.S. degree
in mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1970 and a Ph.D.
in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, after
which she joined the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
From 1983 to 1991, she headed the Mathematics, Information Sciences
and Operations Research Division at Bellcore. In 1991 she became
a Bellcore Fellow. In 1993, she was the Class of 1965 Professor
of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1998, she
has been a Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science
and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She
is also the Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics. Distinguished Lectures and Panel Discussion Distinguished Lecture: Topic: Computers and Mathematics: Problems and Prospects Guest Speaker: Professor Ronald Graham, University of California, San Diego Date: 18nd May 2007 There is no question that the recent advent of the modern computer has had a dramatic impact on what mathematicians do and on how they do it. However, there is increasing evidence that many apparently simple problems may in fact be forever beyond any conceivable computer attack. In this talk, Professor Graham will describe a variety of mathematical problems in which computers either have had, may have or will probably never have a significant role in their solutions. Prof Ronald Graham is a well known mathematician, computer scientist, and highly accomplished trampolinist and juggler. He is credited by the American mathematical Society with being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". He has done important work in scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, and quasi-randomness. He holds the posts of Chief Scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology, and Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of California, San Diego. Distinguished Lecture: Topic: The Beauty of Computing Guest Speaker: Professor Chung Laung Liu,
National Tsing Hua University Date: 18nd May 2007 Computing is a powerful yet elegant, useful yet interesting, mechanically impressive yet intellectually inviting process. Please join us to behold some of the beautiful ideas in modern digital computing is this quick tour. Prof Chung Laung Liu grew up in Macau/Hong Kong and earned his Sc.D. degree from MIT. He was on the faculty of the MIT (1962-72) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972-98), and the President at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan (1998-2002). He received many awards for his technical contributions in real-time scheduling and computer aided design of VLSI circuits and for his excellent teaching and education. He is Honorary Chair Professor of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University and the Secretary General of Chiang Chen Industrial Foundation. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM and a member of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Panel Discussion: Topic: The Beauty of Computing and Mathematics Panelists: Moderators: Date: 18 May 2007
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