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作者: Anatomy 时间: 2009-9-25 09:48:10 标题: 属于Massey和NZL的荣誉

我老板的老板杰出教授Gaven Martin近日被邀请到俄亥俄州立欣欣纳提大学参加年度的
Taft讨论会，并会在会议上提出其最新攻克的数学界的难题。

这也是历史上第一位来自NZL的数学家被邀请参加此次峰会。这不但是属于Massey的荣耀，更是全国的荣耀。

本人数学愚钝，但很是钦佩杰出教授Gaven Martin。他也是我见过的国内为数不多的用灌墨水的钢笔写字的教授，别的大多数都贪省事用圆珠笔。

更多的细节请参考如下：

http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-us/news/article.cfm?mnarticle=top-us-lecture-billing-for-massey-mathematician-24-09-2009

Top US lecture billing for Massey mathematician

Distinguished Professor
Gaven Martin

Mathematics Distinguished Professor Gaven Martin is the first academic from a New Zealand university to be invited to deliver the annual Taft Lectures at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio next month.

He will join a long list of eminent mathematicians to present the public lectures since 1931. The Charles Taft Memorial Fund sponsors a programme of public lectures, including one or more in mathematics. The lectures feature prominent mathematicians speaking on recent important developments in their field. Each lecturer usually gives two lectures on consecutive days – the first aimed at a fairly general audience while the second tends to include more specialised material. Mr Taft was a newspaper publisher, congressman and half-brother of United States President Howard Taft (1909-13).

Professor Martin, based at Massey’s Institute for Advanced Study at the Albany campus, will discuss breakthrough results from his recent research, including work on conformal geometry and materials science. In his first lecture on October 20 he will address a general mathematically literate audience. The following day he will speak to a specialised audience, and will give further talks to researchers at the university.

“I’ll talk about hyperbolic geometry to the general audience based on a public lecture I gave last year, and about some of my recent research on conformal geometry and materials science to the specialised group,” he says. He describes hyperbolic geometry as “weird and interesting" and offering new possibilities to explain many features of the universe, while materials science involves studying the differential equations that describe how materials are deformed when stressed.

Professor Martin, who was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Hector Medal last year, is a strong advocate of the study of pure mathematics. He says mathematicians are developing tools and structures to find answers to puzzling questions that underpin our understanding of how the physical world works.

“Such models have been crucial to the development of pretty much all of modern technology – cellphones, lasers, computers and medical imaging devices are obvious examples. The Taft Lectures will give me the opportunity to talk about some of the recent work I’ve been doing with several of my PhD students."

The only other New Zealander to have delivered a Taft lecture is Sir Vaughan Jones, from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Martin will also give guest lectures at Wesleyan University in Middleton, Connecticut, and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he previously worked.

作者: Anatomy 时间: 2009-9-25 09:50:26

有几次在电话中听见他教育他女儿不听话，很是犀利

作者: Arthas 时间: 2009-9-25 14:26:56

如果说是梅西的荣耀我同意，至于什么全国的荣耀……听起来那么别扭。。。

作者: wishjess 时间: 2009-9-25 17:51:44

这个老头可厉害了，给我们上课的时候带一张A4的纸，上面有3，4行字，他就看着这张纸讲2个小时的课。。。。有时候来上课，说今天上一堂short lecture,然后扭头就走了。。。。大忙人一个。。

不过我觉得跟他作学生得累死，他不是那种很会给你讲的人，应该是他太天才的缘故

顺便说一句，他那辆奔驰不错。。。

作者: Anatomy 时间: 2009-9-27 14:53:14

原帖由 wishjess 于 2009-9-25 17:51 发表
这个老头可厉害了，给我们上课的时候带一张A4的纸，上面有3，4行字，他就看着这张纸讲2个小时的课。。。。有时候来上课，说今天上一堂short lecture,然后扭头就走了。。。。大忙人一个。。

不过我觉得跟他作学生得 ...

同意啊！他上课就是这样的，题目都在他脑子里，不需要太多讲义了。上次听他作报告，从头到尾没听懂他在讲什么

他的小奔到没什么，只是他的车牌很厉害

作者: wishjess 时间: 2009-9-27 18:43:47

原帖由 Anatomy 于 2009-9-27 14:53 发表

同意啊！他上课就是这样的，题目都在他脑子里，不需要太多讲义了。上次听他作报告，从头到尾没听懂他在讲什么
他的小奔到没什么，只是他的车牌很厉害

他啥子车牌？

我倒是在iims parking看到一个车牌，314159，不知道是哪个老师的。。。应该是数学的吧。。

作者: jessica17 时间: 2009-9-27 20:47:59

。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/。/

作者: Anatomy 时间: 2009-9-27 21:14:17

原帖由 wishjess 于 2009-9-27 18:43 发表

他啥子车牌？

我倒是在iims parking看到一个车牌，314159，不知道是哪个老师的。。。应该是数学的吧。。

hohohoho,gaven的车子不是这个车牌，是“教授”的拼写。

作者: timm 时间: 2009-9-29 15:17:20

感觉很眼熟呢？

作者: smiles 时间: 2009-9-29 18:29:04

It is good that Gaven left UoA...

作者: Anatomy 时间: 2009-9-29 22:03:16

10# smiles
非常多的人have left UoA...

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