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Third - 2005

The Third Annual Preskenis Dinner Meeting was held on Thursday, April 28, 2005. Dr. Robert Devaney, Boston University, gave a presentation titled "Chaos Games and Fractal Images".

Dr. Devaney is the 1994 winner of the NES/MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching and the 1995 winner of the MAA's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

Abstract: In this lecture, we will describe some of the beautiful images that arise from the "Chaos Game." We will show how the simple steps of this game produce, when iterated millions of times, the intricate images known as fractals. We will describe some of the applications of this technique used in data compression as well as in Hollywood. We will also challenge students present to "Beat the Professor" at the chaos game and maybe win his computer.

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We thank Houghton-Mifflin for its support of the 2005 NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J. Preskenis.

Collage, Third Annual Preskenis Dinner, 2005

 

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