The Edmund R. Michalik
Distinguished Lecture Series
in the Mathematical Sciences
Edmund R. Michalik has a long history with the University of Pittsburgh and the Department of Mathematics. He received his B.A. in Education from Pitt in 1937 and went on to receive his M.S. in Mathematics in 1940. After he graduated, Michalik joined the Navy to serve during WWII. The day after he was discharged in 1946, he met his future wife Martha. He came back to teach at Pitt until 1951. Over the next few years Michalik worked for a variety of organizations, including the Army, Atlantic Research Corporation and the Mathematics Department at the Mellon Institute, where he was the Head of Applied Mathematics. In 1957 he worked for PPG as the Head of the Applied Mathematics, and later as the senior engineer and Head of Computer Research, when he retired in 1980. Throughout this time Michalik volunteered his time and taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematics. He was dedicated to the study of mathematics.
2008
Neil J. A. Sloane
"The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: Solved and Unsolved Problems"
April 4, 2008
Neil Sloane is a Fellow at AT&T Shannon Labs in Florham Park, NJ.
He
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE
Fellow, and recipient of the IEEE Hamming Medal and the MAA Chauvenet Prize. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including “The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes” (with F. J. MacWilliams) and “Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups” (with J. H. Conway). More>
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2007
Dr. Cathleen Morawetz
"Collisionless Shocks in Space"
April 6, 2007
Professor Cathleen Morawetz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences. She was Director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the President of the American Mathematical Society. She receieved the National Medal of Science in 1998, and the Lifetime Acheivement award from the Americam Mathematical Society in 2004. More>
2006
Robert F. Engle, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate
"Global Volatility: its Measurement, Interpretation and Causes"
April 7, 2006
Dr. Engle was awarded the 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for "methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)."
Dr. Engle received his Ph.D. in Econmincs from Cornell University in 1966. His work is distinguished by exceptional creativity in the empirical modeling of dynamic economic and financial phenomena. He is a renowned expert in Financial Economics, Time Series Analysis, Volitility and Risk Management and Empirical Market Microstructure. More>
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