Department of Mathematics A. Everett Pitcher Lecture Series

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The lectures are held in honor of A. Everett Pitcher, who was secretary of the AMS from 1967 until 1988. Pitcher served in 

the mathematics department at Lehigh from 1938 until 1978, when he retired as Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. 

He died on December 4, 2006, at the age of 94.

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Department of Mathematics 

A. Everett Pitcher Lecture Series 

 

 

 

 

     presents

   

 TERENCE TAO  

Professor of Mathematics, UCLA 

Monday, September 8, 2014

BOUNDED GAPS BETWEEN PRIMES

Lewis Lab 270 - 7:30pm

Public Lecture

Lobby reception at 6:45pm

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

SETS WITH FEW ORDINARY LINES

Sinclair Auditorium - 4:10pm

coffee and light refreshments preceding the talk

Thursday, September 11, 2014

FINITE TIME BLOWUP FOR AN AVERAGED 

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION

Sinclair Auditorium - 4:10pm

coffee and light refreshments preceding the talk

PROFESSOR TERENCE TAO 

was born in Adelaide, Australia 

in 1975. He has been a 

professor of mathematics 

at UCLA since 1999, having 

completed his PhD under Elias 

Stein at Princeton in 1996.  

Tao’s areas of research include 

harmonic analysis, PDE, 

combinatorics, and number 

theory.

    He has received a number 

of awards, including the 

Salem Prize in 2000, the 

Bochner Prize in 2002, the 

Fields Medal and SASTRA 

Ramanujan Prize in 2006, the 

MacArthur Fellowship and 

Ostrowski Prize in 2007, the 

Waterman Award in 2008, the 

Nemmers Prize in 2010, and 

the Crafoord prize in 2012.  

Terence Tao also currently 

holds the James and Carol 

Collins chair in mathematics 

at UCLA, and is a Fellow of the 

Royal Society, the Australian 

Academy of Sciences 

(Corresponding Member), the 

National Academy of Sciences 

(Foreign member), and the 

American Academy of Arts 

and Sciences.