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KING'S COLLEGE RESEARCH CENTRE

On 1 October 1998, King's College launched a Research Centre project on spatially extended dynamics, involving mathematics, biology, and statistical physics. During the Michaelmas Term talks will be given at 5.05 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, King's College Research Centre, to illuminate the various facets of, and starting points for, the project. Refreshments will be available at 4.45 p.m. The talks are open to all.

28 October: Description and abundance of travelling waves in cellular automata and chaotic cml, by Maurice Courbage, of Paris 7.

4 November: Phase transitions in spatially extended dynamical systems: what are the questions?, by Robert MacKay, of DAMTP.

11 November: TBA, by Neil O'Connell, of BRIMS, Bristol.

18 November: Stein's method with application to the anti-voter mode, by Gesine Reinert, of King's College and the Statistical Laboratory.

25 November: Bubonic plague in Europe - extinction or evolution, by Matt Keeling, of King's College and the Department of Zoology.

2 December: Time inhomogeneous dynamics: applications to simulated annealing, by Guy Gielis, of King's College and the Statistical Laboratory.

For further information please contact Rosemarie Baines (tel. 331420, e-mail rb10012@cus.cam.ac.uk) or Gesine Reinert (tel. 331328, e-mail gesine@statslab.cam.ac.uk).


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Cambridge University Reporter, 28 October 1998
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