Senior Scholars to Deliver Public Lectures in Park City

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July 14, 2004

CAMBRIDGE, MA - The Clay Mathematics Institute will hold its first public event in Utah this coming Friday. Richard Stanley, eminent combinatorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the U.S National Academy of Sciences, will deliver a public lecture entitled Tilings at 3:15 PM on Friday, July 16, in the Grand Theater at the Inn at Prospector Square (Prospector Ave. at Sidewinder Drive) in Park City.

Richard Stanley (MIT) and Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley) are the first in the nation to be named Clay Senior Scholars. They will both be in residence at the Summer Session of the Park City Mathematics Institute, a program of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), which runs until July 30. The focus of this year's program is geometric combinatorics.

Professor Sturmfels will deliver a public lecture entitled Tropical Mathematics on Tuesday, July 20, at 3:15 PM, also in the Grand Theater at Prospector.

These public lectures are designed for the general audience. Teachers of mathematics and members of the public with a lively interest in math, young and old, are especially invited to attend.

For more information contact:

Catherine Giesbrecht Park City Mathematics Institute
Tel: 801-864-1007