[JLabEdEvents] Special Lecture at ODU - Making Light of Mathematics

[gagnon at jlab.org]

Sir Michael Berry, one of the United Kingdom's best known scientists  
and a popular speaker about mathematics and physics, will deliver a  
public lecture at Old Dominion University on Monday, April 12.

Berry's presentation, "Making Light of Mathematics," will begin at 7  
p.m. and be held in the E.V. Williams Engineering and Computational  
Sciences Building's first floor auditorium. There is no charge for the  
lecture.

His talk at ODU will delve into how mathematical phenomena find  
application and sometimes spectacular physical illustration in the  
physics of light. He will explain how concepts such as fractals,  
catastrophe theory, knots, infinity, zero, and even 1 plus 1 failing  
to equal 2, are needed to understand rainbows, twinkling starlight,  
sparkling seas and oriental magic mirrors.

The lecture is sponsored jointly by ODU's Department of Mathematics  
and Statistics and Department of Physics.

For further information, please contact John Adam (757-683-3694 or jadam at odu.edu 
) or visit ODU's website:

      http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=21092



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