The 2007 Leonard Mautner Memorial Lectures will take place at UCLA February 27 and 28. ‘ Using Mathematics to Explain the World Around Us’ will be the first of two lectures presented by Dr. Peter Lax, professor of mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. The principal objective of the Mautner lectures, which have been given since 1983, is to make the achievements of science more accessible to the educated lay public and students from other disciplines who have limited knowledge of science and technology. The series, which has featured distinguished memorial lecturers such as Richard Feynman, Robert Gallo and Harold Varmus, was initiated by the late Leonard Mautner, a Palisades resident, and has been continued by his wife Marguerite. Lax was awarded the 2005 Abel Prize in Mathematics of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. This prize is modeled after the Nobel Prize and was developed by the University of Oslo. Born in Budapest, Lax emigrated to New York with his parents in 1941, and subsequently received his Ph.D. in 1949 from New York University. He is the recipient of many prestigious honors, awards, and honorary doctorates from universities all over the world. The public lecture on Tuesday, February 27 is at 4 p.m. in Covell Commons, and the Research Lecture, titled ‘ The Zero Dispersion Limit’ is on Wednesday, February 28, at 4 p.m. in Schoenberg Auditorium. The public is cordially invited. For more information, call (310) 206-7575 or go online to egremse@support.ucla.edu.
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