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Learned Society of Wales (Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru) Lecture 28th June 2010 at Cardiif (15 June 2010)

Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru
Learned Society of Wales

Following the launch of the Learned Society on 25 May:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/05/25/learned-society-of-wales-launched-91466-26513210/

a Frontiers programme of Distinguished Lectures is being inaugurated.

The idea of this series is that the Society invites distinguished researchers to discuss the frontiers of their
field and their current personal contributions and opinions. The lecturers will be drawn form all fields
and all parts of the world. The intended audience will be from their broad subject area and cognate areas.

The series will be initiated with a talk by:

Professor Dan-Virgil  Voiculescu
University of California, Berkeley

17.00, 28 June 2010

Wallace Lecture Theatre
Main Building, Cardiff University

This will be preceded by a tea in the Council Chamber, available from 16.15,
and following the lecture, there will be a wine reception in the Viriamu Jones Gallery.

The session will be chaired by the Founding President of the Learned Society,
Professor Sir John Cadogan CBE FRSE PLSW FRS.
The Science Vice-President of the Society, Professor Dianne Edwards FRSE FLSW FRS, and other
founding fellows including Professor Graham Hutchings FLSW FRS will also attend as will
other distinguished guests including Professor Elmer Rees CBE FRSE.
 
Full details of the lecture are at:
 
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/maths/subsites/opalg/eu-ncg/meeting_2010_voiculescu_lecture.html
 

For reservations, please contact David E Evans EvansDE@cf.ac.uk, or register through
the web site:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/maths/subsites/opalg/eu-ncg/meeting_2010-reg.shtml
by Wednesday 23 June.

A poster for the event is downloadable at :

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/maths/subsites/opalg/eu-ncg/Frontiers_Flyer_VoiculescuD.pdf

The lecture is funded by the EU Research Training Network in Noncommutative Geometry
EU-NCG and the wine reception is sponsored by Oxford University Press.
The event is hosted by the Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational
Sciences at Cardiff University

David Evans
Cardiff School of Mathematics