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<div><b>Thursday, November 24, 2011 @ 7:30 p.m.</b></div>
<div><b>Siegfried Hall - St. Jerome's University (right next to U Waterloo Health Services)<br>
FREE ADMISSION - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC<br>
FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION</b><br>
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<div><b>The 4th event in the 2011 Bridges Lecture Series:</b></div>
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<div><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><b>Breaking Code(s): </b></span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><i>the Invasion of Normandy from Bletchley to the Beaches</i></span></div>
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<div><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre; "></span>speaker: <i>Carol Acton</i> (English) </div>
<div><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span>speaker: <i>Steven Furino</i> (Mathematics)</div>
<div><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span>moderator: Douglas Peers<i> (Dean, U Waterloo Faculty of Arts)</i></div>
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<div>The abstract world of mathematics and code breaking in wartime seems far removed from the very human world of doctors and nurses who are literally immersed in the bodily fluids of the wounded. This presentation explores the interdependence behind the apparently
very separate stories of code breakers like Bill Tutte whose success relied on absolute secrecy and doctors and nurses who also broke wartime codes, in a very different way, by writing their accounts in forbidden diaries, and whose lives, unknowingly, converge
in July 1944 - D-Day.<br>
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<i>Carol Acton</i> is Associate Professor of English at St Jerome's University. Her research focuses on war writing with a particular interest in how war is expressed through autobiographical accounts of the participants. She is currently coauthoring (with
Dr. Jane Potter) a book on breakdown and resilience in accounts by medical personnel in war zones from the First World War to the current war in Iraq.<br>
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<i>Steven Furino</i> is a Lecturer in the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He is a winner of the University's Distinguished Teaching Award. He has developed courses in the history
of mathematics both for classroom and online offerings.</div>
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This event is part of the new <b>Bridges lecture series </b>sponsored by<b> St. Jerome's University</b> and the <b>Canadian Mathematical Society</b>. Each of the series' public lectures will be delivered jointly by a mathematician and a non-mathematician. More
informations about the series can be found at <a href="http://www.sju.ca/bridges.html">www.sju.ca/bridges.html</a></div>
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