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Li Sheng Tseng
Jeffrey D. Streets
Hamid Hezari
German A. Enciso Ruiz
Department of Mathematics Distinguished Lecturer Graeme Milton
Graeme Milton is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees in Physics from the University of Sydney and his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University. He has taught at Caltech and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah. He has received numerous honors and awards, including a Sloan Fellowship and a Packard Fellowship, both in 1988. He was an Invited Speaker for the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians. He was awarded the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize in 2003 by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for “his many deep contributions to the modeling and analysis of composite materials.” Most recently, he was awarded the 2007 Prager Medal from the Society of Engineering Science for his work on solid mechanics.
The Science Behind Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak
Can we make objects invisible? This has been a subject of human fascination for millennia in Greek mythology, movies, science fiction, etc. including the legend of Perseus vs. Medusa and the more recent Star Trek and Harry Potter. In the last decade or so there have been several scientific proposals to achieve invisibility. We will introduce some of these in a non-technical fashion, concentrating on the so-called "transformation optics" that has received the most attention in the scientific literature.
Cloaking: Science Meets Science Fiction
Abstract: Can we make objects invisible? This has been a subject of human fascination for millennia in Greek mythology, movies, science fiction, etc. including the legend of Perseus versus Medusa and the more recent Star Trek and Harry Potter. In the last decade or so there have been several scientific proposals to achieve invisibility. We will introduce some of these in a non-technical fashion concentrating on the so-called "transformation optics" that has received the most attention in the scientific literature.
MATHCOUNTS Orange County Regional Competition
The Orange County Regional MATHCOUNTS competition will be taking place at UCI on Saturday, February 18 between 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Our OC mathletes have been coaching for months to finally begin competing! A few of the participating Orange County schools are Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, South Lake Middle School, Lakeside Middle School, Venado Middle School, Bonita Canyon Elementary School, Tarbut Vtorah Day School, Vista Verde School, and Turtle Rock Elementary School. Students will compete individually or as part of a team.
Secrets of Mental Math
The Mathematics Department at UCI, with the support of NSF RTG grant DMS-1044150, is proud to present "Secrets of Mental Math," a breathtaking show by the great mathemagician Dr. Arthur Benjamin.
The event is part of a math seminar series for undergraduates and will take place on January 12th from 12 to 1 p.m. in Pacific Ballroom C, at the UCI Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Extremizers and Near-extremizers for the Radon Transform --- A Tale of Three Operators
The Radon transform forms the integral of a function over all affine hyperplanes in Euclidean space R^d. It satisfies various L^p to L^q inequalities in Lebesgue space norms. One of these inequalities has connections with several other topics, including a certain convolution operator, the Kakeya problem, and a multilinear inequality involving determinants. It enjoys an exceptionally large group of symmetries.
Professor Michael Christ is a Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. He earned his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has received numerous honors and awards, including an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and a Sloan Fellowship in 1986, the 1997 Bergman Prize from the AMS, and a Miller Research Professorship for 2000-2001. In 2002, he received the Mathematics Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mathematics Undergraduate Student Association at UC Berkeley. He also received a 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award by the Office of Educational Development at UC Berkeley. He has been an invited lecturer twice at the International Congress of Mathematicians, first in Kyoto in 1990 and then in Berlin in 1998. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His areas of research are harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and complex analysis in several variables.
