All students, faculty, and guests are especially welcome to attend his lectures. There will be a reception from 5:00-6:00 pm for Dr. Keating following his (Thursday) public lecture in the tower room E201 of the Baylor Sciences Building. For his Friday lecture, there will be a reception for Dr. Keating in SR 340 from 3:15-3:45 pm. Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 4:00 pm - D109 (Baylor Sciences Building) Seventh Annual Baylor Lecture Series in Mathematics Speaker: Jon Keating Professor Jon Keating, the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Science at Bristol University(England), will be the seventh speaker in the Baylor Lecture Series in Mathematics. Dr. Keating, a Fellow of the Royal Society, will give two lectures during his visit. His public lecture, suitable for a general audience, will be given on Thursday, October 31 at 4:00 pm in BSB D10; the title of this lecture is "Primes, Quantum Mechanics, Random Matrices and the Riemann Hypothesis". His second lecture will be given in SR 344; the title of this lecture is "Primes, Polynomials and Random Matrices". Jon Keating Jon earned First Class Honours in obtaining his B.S. degree in Physics from Oxford in 1985. Subsequently, he earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Bristol University in 1989 under the supervision of Sir Michael Berry. He has been at Bristol University since 1995 and was made a Professor of Mathematical Physics there in 1997. He was Head of the department from 2001-2004; more recently, he has been Dean of Science at Bristol since 2009. Dr. Keating has earned several honors throughout his professional career, including being named a Hewlett-Packard BRIMS Research Fellow (1995–2001) and an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow (2004–2009). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009 and won the Frölich Prize in 2010. He is an editor of several mathematics and physics journals and is co Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nonlinearity. In addition, he has given several plenary lectures at major mathematical physics conferences throughout the world. baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/205316.pdf
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