How to Go
What: Keith Devlin the “Math Guy”
When: 7:30 p.m., Thursday Feb. 4.
Where: Wittenberg University Bayley Auditorium in the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center.
Cost: Free and open to the public
More info: wittenberg.edu
SPRINGFIELD — Stanford University professor and National Public Radio’s “Math Guy” Keith Devlin will be the featured presenter at this year’s Witt-Series-sponsored IBM Endowed Lecture.
The event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4 in Wittenberg University Bayley Auditorium.
Devlin is the co-founder and executive director of Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, a consulting professor in Stanford’s Department of Mathematics, co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network and a senior researcher at Stanford’s Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Recent topics of his weekly NPR Math Guy sessions have included “Top 10 Reasons Why the BMI is Bogus”, “The Formula for the Perfect Parallel Parking Job” and “What Do We Need Algebra For?”
A World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Devlin’s current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences.
In addition to his Witt Series presentation, Devlin will speak at a Math, Science and Computer Science Students and Faculty session at 3:50 p.m.
The IBM Endowed Lecture in the Sciences is designed to bring to campus distinguished scholars to enhance the role and image of science on a liberal arts campus and to bring about a larger understanding and appreciation of science as a most crucial contemporary exercise.
The event is free and open to the public. Bayley Auditorium is located in the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center. For more information or a campus map, visit Wittenberg.edu.
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