On Thursday, March 30th, come to Harvey Mudd for my talk “Identifying Lottery Scams Using Mathematics and Public Lottery Data”. This is the 2017 Michael E. Moody Lecture. Like other lectures in the series, it is aimed at a general audience. Talk abstract This talk will tell the story of how a journalist, two mathematicians,…
Come see me Wednesday 1/6 at 9:30am in room 307/308 at JMM2016 in Seattle! I’ll be talking about how mathematics professors can contribute to and participate in government advisory boards.
Thanks to everyone who came out for my plenary address “E8 and other exceptional groups” at the AMS meeting in Greensboro, NC!
I’ll be the Gambrinus Fellow at TU Dortmund in October, where I’ll give a 4.5 hour course on algebraic groups and a public lecture. Stop by if you’re in the Ruhrgebeit.
My upcoming general audience lectures for spring 2014, with date and venue: 4/2: Emory University, with Lawrence Mower 4/24: Tufts University 4/28: UCLA, with Lawrence Mower and Philip Stark 6/27: University of Montana
Congratulations to co-authors Bob Guralnick and Andrei Rapinchuk on being invited to give sectional addresses at ICM 2014! Update (8/21/14): Videos of their talks are now up on YouTube.
Come see Hernando Bermudez’s poster on our joint paper Linear preservers and representations with a 1-dimensional ring of invariants at MathFest.
Videos of lectures from the conference “Ramification in Algebra and Geometry” are now up on iTunesU:http://itun.es/igY3ct.
Come see my student Chen Chen defend his senior thesis tomorrow 4/10 at 4pm on lognormal vs hyperbolic distributions in finance.