This group is an informal study/discussion group for people that are taking some of the classes that are being offered online by Stanford University this semester (Spring 2012).  We are also interested in having talks/discussions of applications of these techniques to Biology, Finance and Web Analytics, to name a few.

This is a group for those who have taken a keen interest in Dan Brown's series of books which feature Robert Langdon as the Harvard professor of Religious Symbology and all the topics these books have engendered. The novel and subsequent movie "The Da Vinci Code" in many ways has been ground-breaking. It brought to public awareness that various forces ( or historical movements ) have been at odds with each other, and, at the same time share so much, as if there is some symbiotic relationship bet …