Scattering Theory, or Looking at the Big Picture

Join us for a public lecture from Professor and Laureate Fellow Andrew Hassell from the Mathematical Sciences Institute at ANU. Light refreshments will be served afterwards.

Abstract

Scattering theory, in mathematics, is a way of studying complex interactions by focusing on the “before” and “after” states, without worrying too much about the “in-between”, which is usually much harder to understand. I’ll start with simple examples and (aspirationally) work up to some examples of recent research interest.

About the speaker

Andrew Hassell is currently a Professor and Associate Director of Research in the Mathematical Sciences Institute at ANU.

His PhD was done at MIT in the period 1990-94. After that, he did a 2 year postdoc at Stanford University, and then he moved to ANU, initially as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow. He became an ARC Research Fellow during 1999-2004, and a Future Fellow during 2010-2014. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2013.

Venue

Seminar room 1.33

Mathematical Sciences Institute

ANU College of Science

Hanna Neumann Building #145, Science Road

The Australian National University

Canberra ACT 2600

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