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I JUST LIKE PINK FLOYD. Conversation with Martin Hairer, Regius Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematics Department of the University of Warwick

By Maria Shtilmark on September 10, 2016 in 2016-spring, Interviews, newsletters

Interview by Maria Shtilmark Pleasure to welcome you at the Simons Center. You were able to not only come to the Center, but to be a sole organizer of the workshop on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. What were the workshop’s highlights? We naturally focused on recent developments. I tried to invite participants from different directions, […]

Along Came Magic. Della Pietra Lecture Series Featuring Tadashi Tokieda

By Maria Shtilmark on September 10, 2016 in 2016-spring, newsletters

The latest exciting edition of the Della Pietra Lecture Series was delivered by Professor Tadashi Tokieda, the Director of Studies in Mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the Poincaré Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Stanford. By Maria Shtilmark Prof. Tokieda, who likes applying mathematics to physics, and also applying physics to mathematics, […]

A True Gentleman. Conversation with Tony Phillips

By Maria Shtilmark on September 10, 2016 in 2016-spring, Interviews, newsletters

After 50 years with the Stony Brook Math Department Anthony V. Phillips has officially become Professor Emeritus as of May 31, 2016. The following interview features toasts presented at the farewell tea, held in the Math Department Common Room to celebrate Tony’s life at Stony Brook University. Interview by Maria Shtilmark Was the farewell tea party a […]