BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frank Calegari (University of Chicago) DTSTART:20221123T070000Z DTEND:20221123T100000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T111107Z UID:SMRIPublicEvent/1 DESCRIPTION:Title: The Secrets of Pi (and other transcendal numbers)\nby F rank Calegari (University of Chicago) as part of SMRI Public Event\n\nLect ure held in Messel Lecture Theatre - Sydney Nanoscience Hub (University of Sydney\, Camperdown Campus.\n\nAbstract\nThroughout the centuries\, Pi ha s come up again and again in mathematics in many completely different cont exts — as the special value of various integrals\, the solution to quest ions in probability\, and many more places.\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Ca legari will explore a conjecture\, formalised by Grothendieck\, which expl ains how seemingly different occurrences of Pi (as well as many other inte resting mathematical constants) should all be related. These numbers are l inked to some the biggest open problems in algebra and number theory.\n\nT his talk will be accessible to anyone with an interest in mathematics. Sen ior high school students are encouraged to attend and see integrals outsid e the classroom!\n\n\n\nhttps://rhed.amsi.org.au/public-lectures/mahler-20 22/\n\nAbout the speaker: Born in Melbourne\, Frank Calegari attended Melb ourne University as an undergraduate and completed his graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He joined the Faculty of Northwestern University in 2 006 and has since been a Fellow of the American Mathematical Institute and a von Neumann Fellow of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Frank has been a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago sin ce 2015. His numerous awards include a Sloan Fellowship (2009) and in 2013 he become a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.\n\nFrank’s oth er interests include coffee\, cooking\, cricket\, and classical piano\, an d he has even performed live with Zubin Mehta and the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.\n\n\nAbout the Mahler Lecture Tour: The Mahler lectures are a biennial activity organised by the Australian Mathematical Society\, and s upported by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. The tour invit es a prominent international mathematician to travel to Australian univers ities to deliver lectures at a variety of levels\, including several publi c lectures.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/SMRIPublicEvent/1/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR