[cmath] 2019 Fields Medal Symposium – Public Opening

[Brynne Clark]

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Join us for the Public Opening of the 2019 Fields Medal Symposium!

 

Monday, November 4, 2019 – 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

Isabel Bader Theatre

93 Charles Street West

Toronto, ON M5S 2C7

 

Free event – registration required.

 

The Fields Medal, first awarded in 1936, is considered by the mathematical community as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics. Since 2012, the Fields Institute has hosted the annual Fields Medal Symposium to celebrate the achievements of a recent Fields Medallist. Each year, the Public Opening kicks off the Symposium with a public lecture. This event aims to help demystify the medallist’s area of research and to provide an opportunity for the general public to enjoy, learn from, interact with, and be inspired by the “rock stars” of mathematics. This year, the public lecture will be given by honoree Artur Ávila, 2014 Fields medallist.

 

Artur Ávila is a world-renowned mathematician who at 36 years old became the first Latin American — he is from Brasil — to win the Fields medal, for "his profound contributions to dynamical systems theory, which have changed the face of the field." Dynamical systems theory is the branch of mathematics that considers how a point in space moves over time through the iterative application of a fixed rule to it. This leads naturally to the study of iteration, and to many applications, such as fractals and the Theory of Chaos.

In this public lecture, Ávila will reflect on how his field has changed over time, and examine current questions at the forefront of dynamical systems theory. To join us at the Public Opening, please register at this link.

 

To find out more, please visit the Fields Institute website. 

 

 

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