Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture

Speaker's Bio:
Roger Howe is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Dr. Howe holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. His main research interests are in group representation theory, harmonic analysis, automorphic forms and invariant theory. Some fundamental directions in the representations theory of Lie groups and automorphic forms, such as the dual reductive pairs, are due to him. He has participated in several national initiatives aimed at improving the teaching of mathematics. In 1998 he served as chair of the American Mathematical Society's Consultative Committee involved in a revision of national mathematics standards, and he served as chair of the AMS Committee on Education from 2001 to 2004. For many years he was on the board of directors of the Connecticut Academy for Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology. I addition, he served on the National Research Council's Study Committee on Mathematics Learning. He is the current chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Singapore. Howe is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award for exposition.