We will present several new results about global theorem and asymptotic expansions for the distributions of iid random variables in the domain of attraction of stable laws. Particular attention will be paid to the Cuachy case which exhibits especially interesting features.

In recent years, I have been thinking about
Mathematical Visualization, and developing a
program that does high quality, customized
visualizations of mathematical objects and
processes. I will demonstrate this program
and discuss some of the interesting and
unexpected ways that certain mathematical
theorems turned out to be just what was
needed to find fast and efficient algorithms
that solve a number of difficult rendering
problems. (Some of these rendering problems
involve seeing 3D objects in stereo, and I
will bring along the red/green glasses needed
for the demonstation.)