Genetic algorithms were introduced by John Holland in 1975. They gave rise to a new way of searching through huge amounts of data for answers to a number of concrete questions, such as finding maxima and minima of functions and various problems involving optimization. Over the past few years the New York Group Theory Cooperative of the Mathematics Department of the City College of New York has begun to adapt genetic algorithms to attack hitherto unassailable problems in group theory and algebra.
Please let us know if you plan to come:
Email:
bernice@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Bernice Ravitz)
Or:
shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Vladimir Shpilrain)
Or call: (212) 650 5167, as soon as possible.
Bus service will be provided from the subway at 138th and Broadway, to the College, in the early morning and late afternoon.
The event is sponsored, in part, by Dean Dennis Weiss of CCNY, the Mathematics Department of CCNY and the National Science Foundation, via a grant to the New York Group Theory Cooperative of CCNY.