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2009

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26th January, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at the Garrick Club.

20th January, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at St. Paul's Girls School.

16th January, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at Cambridge University, in Meeting Room 5 of the CMS (Centre for Math. Science), Wilberforce Road.

2008

4th December, Talk on Gilgamesh and the Cuneiform Writing System, at Westminster School.

1st December, Mark's review of John Barrow's recent book, 1000 things you didn't know you didn't know, is published by Standpoint.

1st November, Mark's Essay on bringing back Euclidean geometry to the school curriculum is published by Standpoint.

10th October, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at Westminster School.

29th September, Mark's two articles on Lie Theory and Buildings are published in the Princeton Companion to Mathematics.

4th May: Excerpts from Mark's recent programmes were chosen as one of the items for Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4 at 18:15.

28th, 29th, 30th April and 1st May: four 15-minute programmes by Mark Ronan on BBC Radio 3. The programmes start with the life and work of Galois who died in a duel in 1832, and go on to describe subsequent developments leading to the Monster in the late 20th century; they form The Essay for the week, and can be heard on the 'Listen Again' feature at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/theessay/pip/915af/

30th April, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at Eton College.

19th March, The Japanese translation of Symmetry and the Monster is published by Iwanami Shoten in Japan.

20th February, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at 1 p.m. in Gresham College.

February, Mark's reviews of four recent mathematics books (authors: Ian Stewart, Mario Livio, John Derbyshire, Marcus du Sautoy) appear in the Times Literary Supplement (15 February) and Nature (7 February).

January, The University of Chicago Press confirm that they will publish a reprint of Lectures on Buildings, with new material by the author.

2007

December, Korean translation rights for Symmetry and the Monster are purchased by the Sallim Publishing Company in Korea.

8th November, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at 3 p.m. in Ryerson 352 at The University of Chicago.

5th November, The Italian translation of Symmetry and the Monster, with the title Il mostro e la simmetria is published by Cortina of Milan.

30th October, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, in the UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Series, 1:15 p.m. in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London WC1. An internet relay of the talk is available.

29th October, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, The Warwick Mathematics Society, at 5:30 p.m. in Room MS.02 of the Mathematics Department at the University of Warwick.

12th – 17th August, Mark gave four talks in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore as a guest of SilverLake Axis, a large-scale software company based in Kuala Lumpur and active throughout Southeast Asia.

17th May, Talk on Building Twins, London Algebra Seminar, Imperial College London.

16th May, Talk on The Local to Global Structure of Buildings, Pure Mathematics Seminar, University of Birmingham.

14th May, Talk on The Local to Global Structure of Buildings, Pure Mathematics Seminar, Queen Mary College, London University.

17th January, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, Mathematics Department, University College London

2006

3rd December: interview with Mark Lynch on his Inquiry program, broadcast on WICN Public Radio in New England.

November: Italian translation rights for Symmetry and the Monster are purchased by the publishers Cortina of Milan.

October: Japanese translation rights for Symmetry and the Monster are purchased by the publishers Iwanami Shoten in Japan.

29th September, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago

24th May, Symmetry and the Monster; followed by The Monster and String Theory, by Katrin Wendland, at The Lighthill Institute of Mathematics, University College London. pdf

16th May, Symmetry and the Monster, talk and book launch, Savile Club, London

9th May, Moonshine for groups, and sunshine for geometry: the resolution of an old conjecture, University of Oxford Algebra Seminar

9th May, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, University of Oxford, Invariants Society

8th May, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, Mathematics Dept., Queen Mary College, University of London

5th May, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, Mathematics Dept., University of Nottingham

4th May, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, Mathematics Dept., University of Birmingham