Bridges Lecture: November 3rd

[Benoit Charbonneau]

Thursday, November 3, 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 3rd event in the 2011 Bridges Lecture Series:

Dimensions of Transcendence: Flatland and the unseen order

speaker:  David Seljak (Religious studies professor)
speaker: Benoit Charbonneau (Mathematics professor)
moderator: Ian Goulden (Dean, U Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics)

http://www.sju.ca/bridges/2011/SeljakCharbonneau2011.html

The novel Flatland, written in 1884 by E.A. Abbott, an English clergyman and headmaster of the City of London School, centres on the adventures of a two-dimensional square discovering the possibility of a three-dimensional world. Flatland is really an exploration of transcendence, the ability to see the unseen order behind the surface reality of everyday life. Mathematics and religion both seek to describe this unseen order behind reality. In this discussion of Flatland, a scholar of religion and a professor of mathematics will explore the nature of transcendence, the ability to move beyond one's limited dimension to see the unseeable and to think the unthinkable.

David Seljak is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at St. Jerome's University and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research interests are in religion and multiculturalism in Canada as well as religious perspectives on contemporary religious issues. His course Evil (RS 121) was listed in Maclean's magazine as a point of interest at the University of Waterloo. He has co-edited (with Paul Bramadat) Religion and Ethnicity in Canada and Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada.

Benoit Charbonneau is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Jerome's University and a member of the Pure Mathematics Department at the University of Waterloo. He is a differential geometer and his research centres on the intersection between mathematics and high-energy physics. He also collaborates on interdisciplinary efforts that focus on understanding glass formation and has developed the St. Jerome's Bridge Lecture Series to foster wider scientific education.

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>


PUT ON YOUR CALENDAR
The last lecture part of the Bridges lecture series is already scheduled and you may want to save the date.

Thursday, November 24, 2011 @ 7:30 p.m.
Breaking Code(s): the Invasion of Normandy from Bletchley to the Beaches
Speakers: Carol Acton (english) and Steven Furino (mathematics)
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