Presents Invited Lecturer:

NOAM D. ELKIES, Professor Harvard University

Professor Elkies is a number theorist, a graduate of Harvard and at age twenty-six was the youngest in Harvard history to be granted tenure. He has been recognized by many awards such as a Packard Fellowship, the Prix Peccot of the College de France and the 2004 Conant Prize awarded at the 110th Annual Meeting of the AMS. Elkies' outside interests include classical music (playing the piano and composition) and chess (in which he won the 1999 world championship for solving chess problems).

First Lecture: "Error-correcting codes and algebraic geometry"

Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 4:10 p.m.

Place: B104 Wells Hall

Refreshments served approximately 30 min. prior to lecture in A204 Wells Hall

Reception at Kellogg Center, Red Cedar B: Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 7:30- 9:00 p.m.

Second Lecture: "Linear codes and algebraic geometry in projective space"

Time: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 4:10 p.m.

Place: A304 Wells Hall

Refreshments served approximately 30 min. prior to lecture in A204 Wells Hall

Third Lecture: "Linear and nonlinear codes from algebraic curves"

Time: Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 4:10 p.m.

Place: A304 Wells Hall

Refreshments served approximately 30 min. prior to lecture in A204 Wells Hall

 

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