[Combprob] Van Vu speaking in the Math Colloquium Wednesday

[Daniel Spielman]

*Time:*4:15 PM - 5:15 PM*Title:*Everything you always wanted to know about
(random) functions*Speaker:*Van Vu, Yale*Location:*215 LOM
*Abstract:*Studying the zeroes of of a function and its derivates (local
maxima and minima, saddle points etc) is among the most basic and important
problems in mathematics.

Needless to say, there are hundreds of theorems on the topic, many give
valuable information in some special cases, while being totally useless in
others. There are no universally good estimates.

In this talk, I am going to tell the story about what happens in the
average case, namely when our function is random, following the footsteps
of Littlewood, Offord, Kac, Erdos, Ibragimov and many leading
mathematicians of the last century.

If time allows, we will peep into this century as well.
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