March 13, 2007
7:30 pm
Physics 203
University of Virginia

A native of Methuen, Massachusetts, Robert Devaney is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University. He received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1969 and his PhD from UC-Berkeley in 1973 under the direction of Stephen Smale.

Dr. Devaney describes the beautiful images that arise from the chaos game. He will show how the simple steps of this game produce the intricate images known as fractals, describe some of the applications of this technique, and challenge the audience to "beat the professor" at the chaos game and perhaps win his computer.

This talk is intended for a general audience.

Admission is free.

Those attending the talk can park near the UVa football stadium and walk through the
Engineering School to get to the Physics building, which is on McCormick Road.
Physics is building #41 on the map at:
http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/GMcCormickRoadArea.html


Sponsored by: Institute of Mathematical Science (theims @virginia.edu)

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