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Mathematical Sciences

Taming Infinities Fields Medallist Professor Martin Hairer Event

Time:
17:00
Date:
18 May 2015
Venue:
Building 67 (Nightingale Building) Lecture theatre A (room 1027) Highfield Campus A drinks reception will be held afterwards in the Mathematical Sciences Student Centre To RSVP, please register using Eventbrite

For more information regarding this event, please telephone Sarah Dack on +44 (0)23 8059 2522 or email [email protected] .

Event details

Mathematics event

Some physical and mathematical theories have the unfortunate feature that if one takes them at face value, many quantities of interest appear to be infinite.

Various techniques usually going under the common name of "renormalisation" have been developed over the years to address this, allowing mathematics and physicist to tame these infinities. Professor Hairer will explore some of the mathematical aspects of these techniques and will see how they have recently been used to make precise analytical statements about the solution of some equations whose meaning was not even clear until now.

Speaker information

Professor Martin Hairer, FRS ,Warwick University,Regius Professor of Mathematics

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