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A Public Lecture:
The Nature of Roughness in Mathematics, Science and Art
presented by
Benoit Mandelbrot
Time and Location:
April 16, 2007, 4:30 pm
LaKretz Hall (click on core-south), Room 110
Light refreshments will be served at 4:00 pm
The Lecture will be followed by a reception in the IPAM building
This lecture is part of the IPAM workshop Random Curves, Surfaces,
and Transport and is cosponsored by the Department of Mathematics.
For more information about this lecture (including directions and parking) and other activities at IPAM, visit our website,
or call us at (310) 825 4755.
Abstract:
Professor Mandelbrot is world famous for his work on fractal geometry and chaos theory. He is universally acknowledged as
the “father of fractals”, a subject that has its roots in the work of Weierstrass, Cantor, Klein, and Poincaré. Professor
Mandelbrot has proposed fractal models in the study of coastlines, clouds, lungs, trees, arteries, etc. In a special issue
of “Le Nouvel Observateur”, published a few years ago, he was listed as one the ten most influential scientists of our time.
For his fundamental discoveries, Professor Mandelbrot has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, including the 1993 Wolf
Prize for Physics, the 2003 Japan Prize, and the 2005 Sierpinski Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society. He belongs to the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, among
other academies.
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Phone: 310 825-4755
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