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The Limits of Economic Power: Supply Chains, Sanctions, and the God-almighty Dollar
The Limits of Economic Power: Supply Chains, Sanctions, and the God-almighty Dollar
The 2024 George F. Kennan Lecture presents James Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government/business relations and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.
From malaria to chatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk
From malaria to chatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk
The Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Natural Sciences for 2024 features Professor Jordan S. Ellenberg from UW-Madison. The “random walk” is a mathematical concept which underlies the way scientists now think about everything from stock markets to Wisconsin’s legislative districts …
Math Colloquium: Long-Time Behaviors of Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems
Math Colloquium: Long-Time Behaviors of Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems
Presented by Prof. Qingshuo Song, associate professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In this talk, we will discuss the asymptotic behavior of the solution to a linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems. By establishing a connection between the ergodic cost problem and …
How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them
How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them
Join us for an engaging event hosted by the nonpartisan organization United to Preserve: Democracy and the Rule of Law and sponsored by UWM College of Letters & Science. The 2024 Dean's Social Impact Lecture will feature Barbara F. Walter, …