Speaker:

• Sir Michael Atiyah, Professor, University of Edinburgh

  Michael Atiyah received his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1954, and has held positions at Oxford and Cambridge, prior to moving to Edinburgh. He has contributed to a wide range of mathematics centering on the interaction between geometry and analysis, and was awarded a Fields medal in 1966. Among his many accomplishments are the development of K-theory (with F. Hirzebruch) and the well known Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem.

  A Biography of Michael Atiyah can be read at the website:

  www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Atiyah.html

Tuesday, March 26, 2002 B106 Wells Hall:

• 4:00 pm     "Polyhedra in Geometry, Physics and Chemistry"
• This is suitable for a General Science Audience
• 3:20 pm     Coffee, A204 Wells Hall
• 7:30 pm     Reception. Red Cedar Room, Kellogg Center

Thursday, March 28, 2002 B106 Wells Hall:

• 4:00 pm     "A Challenging Problem in elementary Geometry"
• This is suitable for an Undergraduate Mathematics Major
• 3:20 pm     Coffee, A204 Wells Hall

Friday, March 29, 2002 A304 Wells Hall:

• 4:00 pm     "Projective Planes and Spheres"
• This is at the Graduate Student Level
• 3:20 pm     Coffee, A204 Wells Hall

The above locations of lectures may be subject to change.

For additional information:

Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
(517)355-9680
ginther@math.msu.edu
www.math.msu.edu/Lecture_Series