The Kloosterman chair 2011 is occupied by Prof. Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, working at the Université Paris Sud-Orsay in Paris, France. Colliot-Thélène's research area is arithmetic algebraic geometry. The Kloosterman lecture, entitled 'From sums of squares in fields to motivic cohomology and higher class field theory', will be held on Thursday April 21, from 4-5 PM, in room 312 of the Snellius building.
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The Institute of Mathematics, Leiden University, and the Dept. of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, LUMC, announce a talk by Jerome Friedman in the Statistical Science Seminar on Wednesday afternoon, March 2, at 15:30 pm, at the LUMC Building 1, Lecture Room 3, Albinusdreef 2, Leiden. Title: Predictive learning via rule ensembles. Drinks afterwards at 17:00. More information can be obtained via Jacqueline Meulman.
On Thursday, February 24 starting at 10:45 AM the 'Abel in Holland' day will take place in the De Sitterzaal of the Oort building. On this day, organised by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Mathematical Institute, several lectures will be given, intended for a broad mathematical audience, by members of the committee of the Abel Prize 2011.
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