Tonight, Mike Sipser, head of the mathematics department at M.I.T., will deliver this year’s Clay Public Lecture at Harvard University. The talk is titled “Beyond Computation,” and will focus mostly on the P vs NP problem in theoretical computer science.
I am very excited about this talk. This semester, several of us from the department are following Sipser’s graduate class “Theory of Computation,” cross-listed in Course 18 (Mathematics) and Course 6 (CSAIL). His lectures are a work of art — the experience of watching the master explain his craft is truly a gift to be cherished. Tonight’s performance should be no different.
The lecture takes place in the Science Center, Hall B, at 7pm.
