Sir Michael Atiyah of the University of Edinburgh will deliver the eighth annual Asprey Lectures in Mathematics on April 10 and April 11, at Vassar College. Professor Atiyah's lecture for a general audience, titled "Atoms, Knots, and Elementary Particles," is scheduled at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 10, in Rockefeller Hall, room 300. It will be followed by a reception for the speaker. His second lecture, "A Problem in Elementary Geometry," is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. On Tuesday, April 11, in Rockefeller Hall, room 312, and will be preceded by tea at 4 p.m. in Rockefeller, room 305. The April 11 lecture is intended for a mathematical audience. Both lectures are free of charge and open to the public.
Atiyah is one of the world's most distinguished mathematicians. He is noted for his contributions to geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal — the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics — in 1966. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and has served as its president. During his distinguished career he has been the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Atiyah holds honorary doctorates from several universities including the universities of Bonn, Dublin, and Chicago. He was knighted for his contributions to mathematics and science in 1983.
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