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Volume 17, Number 1     September & October 2007

Distinguished Scholar Teacher
Lecture Series

 

“Playing Pool on Curved Surfaces and the Wrong Way to Add Fractions”
William Goldman, Dept of Mathematics
4 p.m. Monday, October 8
2203 Art-Sociology Bldg.

“Whom to Marry, How to Cook, and Where to Buy Gas: Solving Dilemmas of Daily Life, One Algorithm at a Time”
Samir Khuller, Dept of Computer Science
4 p.m. Monday, Oct 29
1115 Computer Science Instructional Center

“Information Forensics: What Sherlock Holmes Would Do”
K.J. Ray Liu, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2 p.m. Friday, November 16
Jeong H. Kim Bldg.

“Frederick Douglass and Haiti: The Secret History”
Robert Levine, Dept of English
4:30 p.m. Thursday, November 8
1120 Susquehanna Hall

“Human Language: You Know More Than You Think”
Paul Pietroski, Dept of Philosophy
4 p.m. Monday, December 3
2203 Art-Sociology Bldg.

“Problems of Prudence: Nuclear Explosives, Biotechnology, and Global Warming”
John Steinbruner, School of Public Policy
4 p.m. Wednesday, October 24
2203 Art-Sociology Bldg.

 

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Teaching and Learning News
Spencer Benson, Director
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Anna Bedford, Editor