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| ====== Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture - 2026 ====== | ====== Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture - 2026 ====== | ||
| ==== Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups through geometry ==== | ==== Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups through geometry ==== | ||
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| **Speaker:** [[ https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/bridson/ | Martin Bridson, University of Oxford ]] | **Speaker:** [[ https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/bridson/ | Martin Bridson, University of Oxford ]] | ||
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| **Date:** Friday, March 13, 2026 \\ | **Date:** Friday, March 13, 2026 \\ | ||
| - | **Time:** 3:00pm \\ | + | **Time:** 3:30pm \\ |
| - | **Location:** [[ https://maps.app.goo.gl/r5WSohtnPVSeya8t9 | Lecture Hall]] 10, Binghamton University \\ | + | **Location:** TBA \\ |
| - | **Abstract:** There are many situations in geometry or elsewhere in mathematics where it is natural or convenient to explore infinite groups of symmetries via their actions on finite objects. But how hard is it find these finite manifestation and to what extent does the collection of all such actions determine the infinite group? | + | **Abstract:** There are many situations in geometry or elsewhere in mathematics where it is natural or convenient to explore infinite groups of symmetries via their actions on finite objects. But how hard is it find these finite manifestations and to what extent does the collection of all such actions determine the infinite group? |
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| **About the speaker:** Martin Bridson is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He is renowned for his work in geometry, topology, and group theory. | **About the speaker:** Martin Bridson is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He is renowned for his work in geometry, topology, and group theory. | ||
| - | Born in the Isle of Man, he was an undergraduate at Oxford and a graduate student at Cornell (PhD1991). He subsequently held faculty positions at Princeton, Geneva, and Imperial College London. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford and the EPFL. | + | Born in the Isle of Man, he was an undergraduate at Oxford and a graduate student at Cornell (PhD 1991). He subsequently held faculty positions at Princeton, Geneva, and Imperial College London. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford and the EPFL. |
| His honours include the LMS Whitehead Prize (1999), AMS Steele Prize (2020), and the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012). A Fellow of the Royal Society (2016), the American Mathematical Society (2015), and Academia Europeae (2020), he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006 and a Plenary Speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2024. | His honours include the LMS Whitehead Prize (1999), AMS Steele Prize (2020), and the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012). A Fellow of the Royal Society (2016), the American Mathematical Society (2015), and Academia Europeae (2020), he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006 and a Plenary Speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2024. | ||
| - | The lecture will be followed by a reception at 4:45 p.m. in the Anderson Center Reception Room, [[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Anderson+Center+For+the+Arts/@42.089995,-75.9712084,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89daeec655555555:0x9087c02e1a55a797|Anderson Performing Arts Center]], Binghamton University. This reception is for the whole Binghamton Mathematics Community as well as for our visitors. | + | The lecture will be followed by a reception at 4:45 p.m., location to be announced. This reception is for the whole Binghamton Mathematics Community as well as for our visitors. |
| For details contact cmalkiew at binghamton dot edu. | For details contact cmalkiew at binghamton dot edu. | ||
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