[Aec-friends] Two talk announcements - Prof. Bruce C. Berndt

[Carsten Schneider]

--------- RISC-DK Colloquium Talk ------------

Prof. Bruce C. Berndt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

6 November 2017, 1:30 p.m.,
RISC seminar room, castle Hagenberg


"Ramanujan's Life and Earlier Notebooks"

Generally regarded as India's greatest mathematician, Srinivasa
Ramanujan was born in the southern Indian town of Kumbakonam on December
22, 1887 and died in Madras at the age of 32 in 1920. Before going to
England in 1914 at the invitation of G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan recorded
most of his mathematical discoveries without proofs in notebooks. The
speaker devoted over 20 years to the editing of these notebooks; his
goal was to provide proofs for all those claims of Ramanujan for which
proofs had not been given in the literature. In this lecture, we give a
brief history of Ramanujan's life, a history of the notebooks, a general
description of the subjects found in the note- books, and examples of
some of the more interesting formulas found in the notebooks.

Note by Peter Paule: The talk is directed to a general mathematical
audience; students are particularly welcome! - Professor Berndt is an
internationally renowned analytic number theorist. He is known
world-wide as a leading Ramanujan expert. - The recent film "The Man Who
Knew Infinity" ("Die Poesie des Unendlichen") presented a much-noticed
portrait of the Indian genius; actors: Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel ("Slumdog
Millionaire").

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--- Algorithmic Combinatorics Seminar Lecture -------

Prof. Bruce C. Berndt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8 November 2017, 2 p.m.,
RISC seminar room, castle Hagenberg


"Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: History and Content"

In the spring of 1976, George Andrews discovered Ramanujan's "Lost
Notebook" in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. The "Lost
Notebook" is not a notebook, but a sheaf of over 100 handwritten pages
made by Ramanujan during the last year of his life. It was not until the
centenary of his birth on December 22, 1987 that the "Lost Notebook,"
along with several unpublished manuscripts, his "Quarterly Reports", and
other miscellaneous papers, were published by Narosa. During the past 20
years, Andrews and the speaker have been editing all of the material in
"The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers". Our goal has been to
provide proofs for all of the results in the Narosa publication. In this
lecture, we give a brief history of the "Lost Notebook," a general
description of its content, and examples of some of the more interesting
formulas found in the "Lost Notebook".

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