Mathematics in the public eye. The story of Perelman and the Poincaré conjecture.

Date: June 18th
Time: 7 pm
Place: Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao

Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford) and Director of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDE. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK), a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK), and an Associé Etranger of the Académie des Sciences (France).

Other awards include the Whittaker Prize of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the Keith Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Naylor Prize in Applied Mathematics of the London Mathematical Society, the Theodore Von Karman Prize of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the David Crighton Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London Mathematical Society. He was a Council Member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 1994-1999, President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society from 1989-90, and of the London Mathematical Society from 1996-1998. He is past president and member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union.

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