SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

SCIENTIFIC LECTURES 2008-09 Open to the Public

March 31, 2009
Keyfitz Lectures in Mathematics and the Social Sciences
Maya Bar-Hillel Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Bible Code: Riddle and Solution

May 25- 27, 2009
Distinguished Lecture Series
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Collège de France

May 27- 28, 2009 -- 3:30 p.m.
Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Science
David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk,
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge
Fields Institute

March 1, 2009 -- 3:00 p.m.
Royal Canadian Institute Sunday Lectures
Florin Diacu, University of Victoria
Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle
Co-sponsored by the Fields Institute
Link to Web cast

November 25, 2008 -- 4pm Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lecture Henri Gillet, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago,Clay Mathematics Institute Senior Scholar What is infinity factorial (and why might we care)?

November 9, 2008 -- 3:00 p.m. Royal Canadian Institute Sunday Lectures Margaret Wright, Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Coping With Impossible Problems Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle Co-sponsored by the Fields Institute (web cast of talk) August 6-8, 2008 Coxeter Lecture Series Speaker: Martin Nowak, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University For further information please contact gensci(PUT_AT_SIGN_HERE)fields.utoronto.ca