ABSTRACT
Stanislaw M. Ulam spent the winter quarter of the 1978-1979 academic year at the Davis campus of the University of California. As Distinguished Visiting Professor of the College of Letters and Science, Ulam presented weekly seminars that touched on such topics as probability, fi nite state automata, evolutionary genetics, and coding theory. Professor Ulam’s audiences refl ected the broad span of his interests: mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and biologists, among others.
