Breaking codes: a Bridges lecture Nov 24

[Benoit Charbonneau]

Thursday, November 24, 2011 @ 7:30 p.m.
Siegfried Hall   -  St. Jerome's University (right next to U Waterloo Health Services)
FREE ADMISSION  -  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION

The 4th event in the 2011 Bridges Lecture Series:

Breaking Code(s): the Invasion of Normandy from Bletchley to the Beaches

speaker: Carol Acton (English)
speaker: Steven Furino (Mathematics)
moderator: Douglas Peers (Dean, U Waterloo Faculty of Arts)

http://www.sju.ca/bridges/2011/ActonFurino2011.html<http://www.sju.ca/bridges/2011/SeljakCharbonneau2011.html>

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.

Carol Acton 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.

Steven Furino 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.

This event is part of the new Bridges lecture series sponsored by St. Jerome's University and the Canadian Mathematical Society. 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 www.sju.ca/bridges.html<http://www.sju.ca/bridges.html>


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