Math Across the Cannon Lecture: From Mosquitoes to ChatGPT - the Birth and Strange Life of the Random Walk

St. Olaf and Northfield Community are welcome to join the St. Olaf Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science and Carleton’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics as we hear Jordan Ellenberg present on current approaches to AI in relation to the idea of the random walk, a major topic in applied math. This lecture, Math Across the Cannon Lecture: From Mosquitoes to ChatGPT – the Birth and Strange Life of the Random Walk, will be in Tomson 280 at 7 p.m., there will be a reception with light food and refreshments to follow.

Jordan Ellenberg, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Author of Shape (2021) and How Not To Be Wrong (2014), attended college at Harvard and returned there to receive his Ph.D in math, while receiving a masters degree in fictional writing from John Hopkins in between.