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:20260422T212901Z UID:SMRIPublicEvent/1 DESCRIPTION:Title: The Secrets of Pi (and other transcendal numbers)\nby Frank Ca legari (University of Chicago) as part of SMRI Public Event\n\nLecture hel d in Messel Lecture Theatre - Sydney Nanoscience Hub (University of Sydney \, Camperdown Campus.\n\nAbstract\nThroughout the centuries\, Pi has come up again and again in mathematics in many completely different contexts — as the special value of various integrals\, the solution to questions in probability\, and many more places.\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Calegar i will explore a conjecture\, formalised by Grothendieck\, which explains how seemingly different occurrences of Pi (as well as many other interesti ng mathematical constants) should all be related. These numbers are linked to some the biggest open problems in algebra and number theory.\n\nThis t alk will be accessible to anyone with an interest in mathematics. Senior h igh school students are encouraged to attend and see integrals outside the classroom!\n\n\n\nhttps://rhed.amsi.org.au/public-lectures/mahler-2022/\n \nAbout the speaker: Born in Melbourne\, Frank Calegari attended Melbourne University as an undergraduate and completed his graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harv ard University. He joined the Faculty of Northwestern University in 2006 a nd has since been a Fellow of the American Mathematical Institute and a vo n Neumann Fellow of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Frank has been a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago since 20 15. His numerous awards include a Sloan Fellowship (2009) and in 2013 he b ecome a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.\n\nFrank’s other in terests include coffee\, cooking\, cricket\, and classical piano\, and he has even performed live with Zubin Mehta and the Israeli Philharmonic Orch estra.\n\n\nAbout the Mahler Lecture Tour: The Mahler lectures are a bienn ial activity organised by the Australian Mathematical Society\, and suppor ted by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. The tour invites a prominent international mathematician to travel to Australian universities to deliver lectures at a variety of levels\, including several public lec tures.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/SMRIPublicEvent/1/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR