James G. Arthur (University of Toronto)
Date
Friday November 14, 20252:30 pm - 3:20 pm
Location
Jeffery Hall, Room 126Department Colloquium
Speaker: Tushar Das (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Title: 2025 Lorne Campbell Lecture: Modern discoveries in the unification of Mathematics
Abstract:
Mathematics today is going through an extraordinary period of unification. We are finding fundamental relations among vast areas of the subject —algebra, geometry, analysis, number theory— that have been studied for centuries. What does this mean? We shall discuss possible philosophical implications of the question. We shall then say something of the areas, and the relations among them, with an eye perhaps to recognizing some beauty in the way they all fit together.
Event Description:
The Lorne Campbell Lecture Series honours the work of Lorne Campbell, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 1963 to 1996 and Head of Department from 1980 to 1990. Professor Campbell, currently Emeritus at Queen’s University, was a Canadian pioneer in the field of communication theory. The lecture series is made possible through the generous donation of Dr. Vijay Bhargava, a former student of Queen’s University.