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Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminars EVENT DETAIL Date:  Thursday, March 10, 2011 Title:  Ziwet Lecture 3 (1360 East Hall): Four bugs on a rectangle Abstract:  Suppose four bugs at the corners of a $2 \times 1$ rectangle start chasing each other at speed 1. Bug 1 chases bug 2, bug 2 chases bug 3, and so on. What happens next will surprise you. As we follow the bugs to their eventual collision at the center, we will encounter the biggest numbers you've probably ever seen and confront some fundamental questions about what it means to try to understand our world through mathematics. Speaker:  Nick Trefethen Institution:  Oxford University   AIM Graduate Program AIM Seminars UM Math seminars