Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall, Manil Suri will deliver the 2009 Blazer Lecture on "The Mathematics of Fiction." The lecture is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Suri, a native of India, is the author of the novels "The Death of Vishnu" and "The Age of Shiva." He is also a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He performs research in numerical analysis, while spending increasing amounts of time working to bring mathematics to the general public.
The Blazer Lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact Amy Hisel in the College of Arts and Sciences at (859) 257-8354 or via e-mail at akhisel@uky.edu.
The AMSTEMM (Appalachian and Minority Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Majors) Program at the University of Kentucky recruits, retains, and graduates Appalachian and Minority Students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors, by providing a community environment, a network of support services, and numerous academic enhancement opportunities while on the UK campus.
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