Tuesday, March 02, 2010
4:15 PM -
5:15 PM
Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Zeta Functions, Periods, and Diophantine Equations
Don Zagier,
scientific member and director,
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
Speaker's Bio:
Dr. Zagier was born in1951. Studies of mathematics and physics, M.I.T. 1966-1968. D.Phil., Oxford University 1971. Habilitation, University of Bonn 1975. Member, SFB Theoretische Mathematik, University of Bonn 1971-1984. Professor, University of Bonn since 1976. Chair Professor of Number Theory, University of Maryland 1979-1990. Professor, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) 1990-1991 and 1992-1993. Professor, University of Utrecht 1990-2001. Scientific Member, MPI for Mathematics since 1984. Director, MPI for Mathematics since 1995. Professor, Collège de France (Paris) since 2000. Carus Prize 1984. Frank Nelson Cole Prize 1987. Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize 2001.
Dr. Zagier was born in1951. Studies of mathematics and physics, M.I.T. 1966-1968. D.Phil., Oxford University 1971. Habilitation, University of Bonn 1975. Member, SFB Theoretische Mathematik, University of Bonn 1971-1984. Professor, University of Bonn since 1976. Chair Professor of Number Theory, University of Maryland 1979-1990. Professor, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) 1990-1991 and 1992-1993. Professor, University of Utrecht 1990-2001. Scientific Member, MPI for Mathematics since 1984. Director, MPI for Mathematics since 1995. Professor, Collège de France (Paris) since 2000. Carus Prize 1984. Frank Nelson Cole Prize 1987. Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize 2001.
"Zeta Functions, Periods, and Diophantine Equations," Don Zagier, scientific member and director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
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