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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Please join us next week for the first lecture of the 2016-2017 Bridges Lecture Series.</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="background-color: white;">Pattern Finding : popular expression of transcendent ideas</span></b><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Calibri"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">Matthew Scott </span></strong><strong><span style="background-color: white;">and </span></strong><strong><span style="background-color: white;">Soheila
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<span style="line-height: 17px;"><font face="Calibri">Jokes, prayers, stories, art all express our deep need to communicate experience beyond our immediate interactions with the material world. Delight in shape and pattern is found in all folk art traditions
back to the farthest reaches of antiquity. Focusing on episodes drawn from all over the world, we will discuss how mathematics plays a vital role in codifying our common experiences of awe and wonderment.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">For more info and speaker biographies please see </span></span><a href="https://www.sju.ca/Bridges/news-events/public-events/bridges-lecture-series/pattern-finding-%E2%80%93-popular-expression" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17px;"><font color="#0000ff">sju.ca/Bridges</font></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17px;"><u><font color="#0000ff">. </font></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17px;">This
is a free event, but </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bridges-public-lecture-series-pattern-finding-popular-expression-of-transcendent-ideas-tickets-27131816995" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17px;"><font color="#0000ff">please register
by ordering a ticket</font></a><span style="line-height: 17px;">. The public lecture will be followed by a reception and is accompanied by a related art exhibition. Free parking is available at St. Jerome’s University, and please note that the venue has changed.</span></font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;">Wednesday October 26 | 7:30pm</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">SJ2 1004 | St. Jerome’s University</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Calibri"><b><span lang="EN">Map: </span></b><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/map/"><font color="#0000ff">https://uwaterloo.ca/map/</font></a><o:p></o:p></font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Calibri"><b><span lang="EN">Please register for a ticket: </span></b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bridges-public-lecture-series-pattern-finding-popular-expression-of-transcendent-ideas-tickets-27131816995"><b><span lang="EN"><font color="#0000ff">http://bridgeslecturepatternfinding.eventbrite.ca</font></span></b></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><o:p><font face="Calibri">Sponsors: Faculties of Arts, Science and Mathematics; St. Jerome’s University; and the Fields Institute.</font></o:p></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Best wishes,</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Alysia</div>
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