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Category: General UO Public Lecture - Toy Models: Small Mathematics in a Big World

4:00 pm
May 10, 2024

University of Oregon-Fenton Hall

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University of Oregon, Fenton Hall room 110

All are welcome at this public lecture by mathematician Tadashi Tokieda. Tadashi Tokieda is a professor of mathematics at Stanford. He grew up as a painter in Japan, became a classical philologist (not to be confused with philosopher) in France and, after a PhD in pure mathematics at Princeton, has been an applied mathematician in England and America. He is also active in outreach, especially via the Atrican Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the youtube channel Numberphile.

 

About the talk:

Would you like to come see some toys?

'Toys' here have a special sense: objects of daily life which you can find or make in minutes, yet which, it played with imaginatively, reveal surprises that keep scientists puzzling for a while. We will see table-top demos of many such toys and visit some of the unusual physics and mathematics that they open up. The theme that emerges is singularity.


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