The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

invites you to the fifteenth annual

 

              Marden Lecture on Mathematics

  Some Musings about Mathematics

                                     presented by

                      Professor R. Daniel Mauldin

                                Regents Professor

Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas

Two topics will be discussed in this talk.  One is very general. It concerns what is mathematics, how our understanding of mathematics has evolved with time and some social phenomena involving mathematics. This discussion will be presented within the context of tracing some fundamental ideas.  The other topic will be introduced in connection with the first topic.  It involves a discussion of fractals, how they arise in dynamics, and some applications.

Professor Mauldin obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Texas at Austin in 1969.  He has over 130 research publications, has graduated 14 doctoral students, and has given over 200 talks around the world.  His research interest covers a wide range of topics in mathematics, including analysis, probability and statistics, topology, set theory, logic, dynamics, computer experiments, fractals and chaos, and ergodic theory. His new book (co-authored with Urbanski) “Graph directed Markov systems. Geometry and dynamics of limit sets” has just been published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. He has been a Regents Professor at the University of North Texas since 1988, and is currently on the editorial boards of Advances in Mathematics and Real Analysis Exchange.

The Marden Lecture was established by Morris and Miriam Marden. Dr. Marden was a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at UWM and was responsible for the inauguration of its graduate program, the first at the University. The lectures are designed to bring distinguished mathematicians to UWM to speak to a general audience on a topic of mathematical interest. They have been given annually since 1989.

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Bldg, Room EMS E180

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI

This program is free and open to the public.  Reception to follow in EMS E495A.

 

The lecture is sponsored by the Miriam and Morris Marden Fund and co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the College of Letters and Science.