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Contents 1 The 2010 Forder Lecture 1.1 Founders Lecture Series 1.2 Inaugural Lecture: Professor Bill Barton 1.3 Les Woods Memorial Lecture 1.3.1 Public lecture mailing list 1.3.2 Past lectures:

The 2010 Forder Lecture

Adding Prime Numbers, Ben Green, University of Cambridge

• Tuesday 21 September 2010, from 5:15 (refreshments), lecture from 6pm, Conference Centre, 22 Symonds Street, Room 323-342

Founders Lecture Series

Symmetry and chirality in discrete structures. Dedicated to the memory of late professor Peter Lorimer, by Marston Conder (University of Auckland)

• Wednesday 24 March from 6:15pm (refreshments), lecture from 7pm, Engineering Building, 20 Symonds Street, Room 1439
  

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Bill Barton

The Pleasure Principle in Undergraduate Mathematics

• Monday 12 April from 6pm (refreshments), lecture from 6:30pm, Engineering Building, 20 Symonds Street, Room 1439

Les Woods Memorial Lecture

Is a random triangle obtuse or acute?, by Gilbert Strang (Massachussets Institute of Technology)

• Friday 21 May, from 6pm (refreshments), lecture from 7pm, Engineering Building, 20 Symonds street, Room 1439

Public lecture mailing list

If you wish to be informed of further public lectures, please email enquiries@math.auckland.ac.nz.

Lectures in this Series aim to present beautiful or intriguing aspects of Mathematics in a way that is accessible to the general public. Curiosity is the only prerequisite.

Past lectures:

• 2010 Public lectures
• 2009 Public lectures
• 2008 Public lectures
• 2007 Public lectures