Oliver Smithies Lectures
Professor Tara Holm will give the Oliver Smithies Lectures for Balliol College in Weeks 2 and 4 of Trinity Term 2014 here in the Mathematical Institute, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. Attendance is free and booking is not required.
'The Geometry of Origami: How the Ancient Japanese Art Triumphed over Euclid' on Thursday 8 May at 5.00pm
'Act Globally, Compute Locally: Group Actions, Fixed Points and Localization' on Tuesday 20 May at 5.00pm
Professor Tara Holm is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. The lectures are funded by a generous benefaction from Professor Oliver Smithies, which enables Balliol to bring distinguished visitors to the University of Oxford.