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David Mumford
IPAM/UCLA Visit: May 21 - 25, 2001
"Balancing
the Siren Songs
of Pure and Applied Math:
Some Stories from Vision"
Colloquium:
Thursday, May 24, 2001
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: MS
6627
Professor Mumford's
visit is jointly sponsored by the Mathematics Department and IPAM. This
includes a Math Department Colloquium.
Abstract: The criteria of success in pure and applied math are
very different, but there is some reason to think they may complement
each other. Professor Mumford will give an easy going account of the
some of the main applications that drive computer vision -- segmentation,
image compression and object recognition -- and some of the hard math
(and physics) which seems to clarify the applications (and some which,
though attractive, seems rather to mislead).
David Mumford was awarded a Fields medal in
1974 for his work in algebraic geometry. Subsequently, the direction
of Mumford's work shifted from algebraic geometry to areas of applied
mathematics including machine and natural intelligence.
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