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