Mathematical Conversations

Date:
Nov
04
2026

Mathematical Conversations

How Water and Billiards Compute, and Whether Planets Can
Eva Miranda
6:00pm|Birch Garden, Simons Hall

In the age of AI, is prediction only a matter of finding a better algorithm? Is chaos the last word on unpredictability? Chaos makes prediction sensitive to errors in the initial conditions, but imagine Laplace’s demon, who knows the present exactly...