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2009 Forthcoming 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 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 |
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