Marcus du Sautoy
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[edit] The Music of the Primes
[edit] Thursday, 15th March • 6pm - 7pm on the New Zealand AccessGRID
This event will be made available LIVE to New Zealand Universities with available AccessGRID nodes on the KAREN network courtesy of BeSTGRID. Please contact your local AccessGRID coordinator to determine if you are able to participate. Video and audio will be two-way with the other AccessGRID nodes. It will be possible to fully participate remotely and to ask questions.
[edit] The New Zealand Institute of Mathematics at its Applications and BeSTGRID Presents
University of Oxford
Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Esquire Magazine chose him as one of the 100 most influential people under 40 in Britain. He is author of the best-selling popular mathematics book “The Music of the Primes” which has been translated into 10 languages. He writes for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and the Guardian and frequently comments on BBC radio and television. Marcus is in New Zealand as a Visiting Maclaurin Fellow of the NZIMA.
[edit] The Music of the Primes
Why did Beckham choose the number 23 shirt? How is 17 the key to the evolutionary survival of a strange species of cicada? Prime numbers are the atoms of arithmetic – the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers. Despite their fundamental importance to mathematics, they represent one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge.
Mathematics is the science of patterns. Yet the most fundamental numbers in the subject seem to have no patterns to them at all. They seem scattered randomly through the universe of numbers. But by looking at these numbers in a new way, mathematicians have discovered what they believe is the secret to the way Nature chose the primes.
[edit] Locations and Technical Information
This event will be made available LIVE to New Zealand Universities with available AccessGRID nodes on the KAREN network courtesy of BeSTGRID. Please contact your local AccessGRID coordinator to determine if you are able to participate. Video and audio will be two-way with the other AccessGRID nodes. It will be possible to fully participate remotely and to ask questions.
- University of Auckland
- Lecture Theatre 439 • Engineering School Building 401 • 20 Symonds Street, 5 pm Refreshments & Book Sales • 6 pm Lecture
- New Zealand Universities (with active AccessGRID nodes).
- University of Auckland
- Graeme Glen, g.glen@auckland.ac.nz, +64 9 3737599 x85932. Physical Address: Rm 429, Level 4, Human Sciences Building, 10 Symonds Street, Auckland
- Auckland University of Technology
- AUT IT Helpdesk, helpdesk@aut.ac.nz, AUT IT Helpdesk - First point of contact for all Access Grid queries, +64 9 921-9931, Ben Yeldon, ben.yeldon@aut.ac.nz, Systems Support Consultant - Technical Access Grid queries only, +64 9 921-9013, Room WO211 - Oracle Tower, Auckland University of Technology, 56 Wakefield Street, Auckland, Node Telephone: +64 9 921-9299
- Waikato University
- Adam Thompson adamt@waikato.ac.nz, Node Operator, +64 7 838 4492, Yvonne Castle, yvonne@waikato.ac.nz, Bookings, +64 7 838 4982. Physical Address: KB15, University of Waikato, Gate 1 Knighton Road, Hamilton, Node Telephone: +64 7 838 4927
- Massey University (Palm Nth)
- Mike Newton, m.i.newton@massey.ac.nz, Node Operator, +64 6 356 9099 ext 2487, Physical Address, Room 4.40, Social Sciences Tower, Massey University, Palmerston North
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Roger Ward, roger.ward@vuw.ac.nz +64 4 463-9476. Physical Address: Rankin Brown Room - RB106, Library Building, Victoria University of Wellington
- University of Canterbury
- Contact Andrew Fletcher, andrew.fletcher@canterbury.ac.nz, phone: +64 3 364-2987 ext 8817
- Lincoln University
- Mike Quested, accessgrid@lincoln.ac.nz
- Otago University
- Craig Harrison, craig.harrison@otago.ac.nz, +64 3 479 7333, Fraser Foster, fraser.foster@otago.ac.nz, +64 3 479 5286. Physical Address: Teaching Facilities, South West corner, Information Services Building, University of Otago, Corner of Albany and Cumberland Streets, Dunedin
- NOTE
- Some nodes may not be available for an NZ-AccessGRID event. Please contact your local node coordinator to determine whether or not you will be able to participate in an event.
[edit] Technical Information
Any available AccessGRID node can participate in the seminar.
Connect to the venue server:
https://agvenue.karen.canterbury.ac.nz:9000/Venues/default
using version 2.4 of AccessGRID
Choose the NZ Venue Server lobby (the lecture will take place in the NZ Lobby)
For further information, please contact: Paul Bonnington p.bonnington@auckland.ac.nz (BeSTGRID)
