03-15-94 Eminent Mathematicians To Speak

MATH RESEARCHERS TO SPEAK AT OHIO STATE

     COLUMBUS -- Six of the world's most distinguished
mathematical researchers will speak at The Ohio State University
Friday and Saturday (3/18-19) during a conference on "Mathematics
for the 21st Century."

     The mathematicians will discuss recent work and prospects
for future studies in a variety of mathematical research.  The
program is being held to inaugurate the new Mathematics Tower on
the Columbus campus.

     The lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be
held in room 160 of the Math Annex classroom building, 209 W.
18th Ave.

     The program begins at 2:45 p.m. Friday and will feature
addresses by mathematicians Charles Fefferman and Andrew Majda.
Fefferman is professor of mathematics at Princeton University,
holder of the Fields Medal and a member of the National Academy
of Sciences.  He will speak on open problems in analysis.

     Majda, also of Princeton, will speak on statistical and non-
linear phenomena in partial differential equations.  He is a
winner of the medal of the College de France, the John von
Neumann Award, and the National Academy of Sciences Prize in
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

     Saturday's program begins at 9:30 a.m. and runs through the
afternoon.  Speakers will be:

     =FE John Coates, Sadleirian Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Cambridge, on "Elliptic Curves and Iwasawa Theory."
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and past president of the
London Mathematical Society.

     =FE Mikhail Gromov, professor of the Institut des Hautes
Etudes Scientifiques in France and the University of Maryland, on
"Prospects in Symplectic Geometry."  A winner of the Wolf Prize,
Gromov is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the
French Academy of Sciences.

     =FE Laszlo Lovasz, professor at Yale University, on
"Algorithms and Randomization."  Lovasz is a member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences and winner of the Falkerson Prize
and Polya Prize.

     =FE Karen Uhlenbeck, professor at the University of Texas, on
"Bifurcations and Adiabatic Limits: Using Tchniques from Applied
Mathematics in Geometry."  Uhlenbeck is a MacArthur Fellow and
member of the National Academy of Sciences.

     More information is available from Dijen Ray-Chaudhuri,

chairperson of Ohio State's Department of Mathematics, at (614)

292-7173 or Karl Rubin, professor of mathematics and chair of the

conference organizing committee, (614) 292-8678.

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