Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture by Prof. Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester)
The 16th Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture will be given by Professor Alex Iosevich from the University of Rochester. Professor Iosevich received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1993. As a world-class expert in Harmonic Analysis, Additive Number Theory, and Discrete Geometry, he has published over 140 papers and given about 400 math lectures worldwide (in more than 20 countries). He is the advisor of 27 PhDs (and 8 current Ph.D. students). Dr. Iosevich has also been the editor of many prestigious journals, including the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and Proceeding AMS.
Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture by Prof. Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester)
When: Wednesday, April 26, 4-5 pm
Where: Avery Hall 115
Title: "The beautiful world of Erdos geometry: points, lines and distances"
Abstract: Paul Erdos considered his greatest contribution to geometry to be his distance problem, which askes, how many distinct distances are determined by $N$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, $d \ge 2$. Generically, the number of distances is $\aprox N^2$, but distance may repeat, so the critical question is, what is the smallest possible number of distinct distances? We are going to discuss some elementary aspects of this problem, related problems in combinatorial geometry and some unexpected applications. The emphasis will be interconnectivity between the various areas of modern mathematics.
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