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The first half of the talk will center on modeling the interplay between human behavior and disease outbreaks, as well as discussing survey-collected human behavior data from all 50 states of the United States during the first two years of the COVID...

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We have all been treated to the excitement of a good science story. Think Discovery Channel or National Geographic. The stories are really engaging! Well, the very same tools and techniques that make great science stories can be used to strengthen...

Secure online communications and financial transactions depend on public key cryptography—but the methods we use today are susceptible to attack by quantum computers. When that will happen is uncertain, though estimates range from 5 to 25 years. This...

In this talk, we start by recalling the well-known problem of multivariate approximation by polynomials of total degree, concerning finding good points for interpolation. This allowed the discovery of the Padua Points, the first set of unisolvent and...

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I shall start with reminders on congruences and p-adic numbers, then give Hasse's contribution to the local-global principle. I shall then mention counterexamples to the "Hasse principle" and then describe various ways which have been devised to...

Topic: Approximation and Our Intellectual History Abstract: Philosophers and mathematicians are lovers of truth—exact truth; in many ways, this accounts for our interwoven histories. But this is a tragic love, constantly frustrated by the elusiveness...

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