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Recent talks by Nelson H. F. Beebe

Original version: Mon Mar 25 11:20:18 2002
Last updates: Thu Jul 1 05:31:43 2004 ... Wed Nov 2 07:01:53 2022               

2022

• Cryptography, Freedom, and Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 02-Nov-2022
  Slides PDF [0.24MB]    Slides PDF (4/page for printing) [0.25MB]
• Newcomb, Benford, Pareto, Heaps, and Zipf
  Are arbitrary numbers random?
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 23-Mar-2022
  Slides PDF [0.8MB]    Slides PDF (4/page for printing) [1.2MB]    Bibliography

2021

Pandemic: campus closed and travel canceled.

2020

Pandemic: campus closed and travel canceled.

2020

• Cryptography, Freedom, and Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 22-Jan-2020
  Slides PDF [0.28MB]    Slides PDF (4/page for printing) [0.25MB]

2019

• Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
  Two-hour workshop held at the Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah, 14 January 2019
  Web site
• Workshop on computer arithmetic
  Three-hour workshop held at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Utah, 05 November 2019
  Web site

2018

• Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
  Two-hour workshop held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 13 November 2018
  Web site
• Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
  Two-hour workshop held at the Department of Mathematics, Utah Valley University, 2 November 2018
  Web site
• Quantum Theory Matters
  Guest lecture in Math 5750: Representation Theory Techniques in Quantum Physics 11-Jan-2018
  University of Utah Department of Mathematics
  Slides PDF [4MB]    Slides PDF (4/page for landscape printing) [0.5MB] Links to other handouts.

2017

• Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code] at a time
  University of Utah Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 20-Sep-2017
  Slides PDF [5.2MB: extensive use of color]    Slides PostScript (6/page for printing) [7.3MB: extensive use of color]
  Since our ZFS talk was first presented in Fall 2016, ZFS architect Matt Ahrens spoke about OpenZFS: History of ZFS at MeetBSD 2017.
• ZFS — and why you need it
  ITX professionals meeting 15-Feb-2017
  Slides PDF [0.7MB]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [0.8MB]

2016

• ZFS — and why you need it
  Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium 10-Nov-2016
  Slides PDF [0.7MB]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [0.8MB]
• Newcomb, Benford, Pareto, Heaps, and Zipf
  Are arbitrary numbers random?
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 27-Jan-2016
  Slides PDF [0.8MB]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [1.2MB]
Since my talk was first presented, ZFS architect Matt Ahrens spoke about OpenZFS: History of ZFS at MeetBSD 2016.

2015

• Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code] at a time
  University of Utah Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 22-Apr-2015
  Slides PDF [5MB: extensive use of color]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [6.6MB: extensive use of color]
• Quantum Theory Matters
  Honors Undergraduate Colloquium 20-Jan-2015 and 10-Nov-2015
  University of Utah Department of Chemistry
  Slides PDF [4MB]    Slides PDF (4/page for landscape printing) [0.5MB] Links to other handouts.

2014

No talks in 2014.

2013

• Newcomb, Benford, Pareto, Heaps, and Zipf
  Are arbitrary numbers random?
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 20-Feb-2013
  Slides PDF [0.5MB]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [1.2MB]

2012

• Cryptography, Freedom, and Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 31-Oct-2012
  Slides PDF [1.3MB]    Slides PDF (6/page for printing) [1.9MB]
• Newcomb, Benford, Pareto, Heaps, and Zipf
  Are arbitrary numbers random?
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 18-Jan-2012
  Slides PDF [1.3MB]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [0.8MB]

2011

• Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Utah Valley University Mathematics Department seminar 30-Sep-2011
  Slides PDF [1.3MB]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [0.2MB]
• Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code] at a time
  Utah Valley University Mathematics Department seminar 23-Sep-2011
  Handout PDF [4.6MB: limited color]    Slides PDF [5MB: extensive use of color]    Slides PostScript (4/page for printing) [6.7MB: extensive use of color]

2009

• BibTeX meets relational databases
  TUG 2009: The 30th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, July 29--31, 2009. PDF of full paper [240KB], Slides PDF [354KB].
• A new math library
  Mathematical Association of America regional meeting, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA, 20 March 2009. Slides PDF [3062KB].

2008

• Computer arithmetic and the MathCW library
  Trends in Quantum Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, December 12--14, 2008. Slides PDF [3242KB]. Handout PDF [4738KB],
• Virtual machines
  University of Utah IT managers meeting, 28 February 2008. Slides PDF [3242KB].

2007

• New directions in floating-point arithmetic
  ICCMSE 2007, Hotel Marbella, Agios Ioannis Peristeron, Corfu, Greece, 25--30 September, 2007
  PDF of extended abstract (published in proceedings), [84KB], PDF of full paper (unpublished) [128KB], Slides PDF [600KB], Slides PDF (reduced 3x2 per page) PDF [91KB].
• Extending TeX and METAFONT with Floating-Point Arithmetic
  TUG 2007, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, 17--20 July, 2007.
  Article PDF [234KB], Slides PDF [522KB], Slides (reduced 2x2 per page) PDF [512KB]

2006

• Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 17-Jan-2006 and Blue Chips computer group 11-Oct-2006: Poster PDF [4KB] Handout PDF [6KB], Slides PDF [0.2MB]

2005

• The design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective [keynote Address]
  Practical TeX 2005 [14--17 June 2005, Chapel Hill, NC]
  preprint article (PDF) [232KB]    slides (PDF) [129KB]    final article (PDF) [330KB]    (PostScript) [377KB]    (gzipped PostScript) [175KB]    (BibTeX file) [106KB]
• The design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective
  TUG 2005 [23--25 August 2005, Wuhan, China P. R.]
  slides (PDF)    final article (PDF) [330KB] [same as Practical TeX 2005 article]    (PostScript) [377KB]    (gzipped PostScript) [175KB]    BibTeX file [106KB]
• Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code] at a time
  Undergraduate Colloquium, Mathematics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 11 October 2005
  Handout PDF [4.6MB: black and white]    Slides PDF [5MB: extensive use of color]    Slides PDF (four per page) [3.6MB: extensive use of color]    Announcement poster PDF [0.2MB: color].
  Earlier editions were presented as Undergraduate Colloquia (course Mathematics 3000) in 2002 and 2003, and at an IBM AIX User Group meeting in 2004. This version uses a new slide format, and has many small changes and rearrangements.
• Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Guest lecture in Physics 1905: Einstein's Legacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 30 November 2005
  Slides PDF [0.2MB],
• Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Forum for Questioning Minds, Salt Lake City Public Library, 11 December 2005.
  Slides PDF [200KB], Announcement poster PDF [60KB], Handout PDF [6KB]

2004

• A Bibliographer's Toolbox
  Practical TeX '2004: 19--22 July 2004, Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California
  Article PDF [276KB]    Article DVI [32KB]    Slides PDF [116KB]    Slides PostScript [461KB]    BibTeX file [32KB]
  Also presented to a smaller group at TUG'2004: 30-August--1-September 2004, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
• Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code] at a time
  IBM AIX Users Group, Research Park, Salt Lake City, UT, 23 March 2004
  Handout PDF    Slides PDF Earlier editions were presented as Undergraduate Colloquia (course Mathematics 3000) in 2002 and 2003.

2003

• 25 Years of TeX and METAFONT: Looking Back and Looking Forward: TUG'2003 Keynote Address
  TUG'2003 Conference: Waikaloa Beach Marriott, Big Island, Hawaii 20--24 July 2003
  one-column preprint PDF [1862KB]    two-column article PDF [718KB]    BibTeX file [76KB]    slides PDF [4249KB]    slides PostScript [212302KB]    slides gzipped PostScript [52452KB]

2002

• Microprocessor Performance
  Utah Tomography and Modeling/Migration (UTAM) consortium cluster computing conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 26 March 2002
  PDF (1-up)    PDF (2-up)    PDF (6-up)    gzipped PS (1-up)    gzipped PS (2-up)    gzipped PS (6-up)
  PDF of selected Math Utah benchmarks    gzipped PS of selected Math Utah benchmarks

2001

• Microprocessor Overview
  Second Cluster Computing in the Sciences Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 8--9 February, 2001
  HTML    B&W PDF (6-up)    color PDF (6-up)    B&W gzipped PS (6-up)    color gzipped PS (6-up)

1998

• Tips on Indexing LaTeX documents
  PDF [intended to be published in TUGboat, but never submitted]

1993

• Bibliography prettyprinting and syntax checking
  PDF [published in TUGboat 14(3) 222, October (1993) and 14(4) 395--419, December (1993)]