MIT Professor to Give Annual Sulski Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

WORCESTER, Mass. – Professor Richard P. Stanley, the Norman Levinson professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 14th annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture in Mathematics on April 24 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center, Room 519. The lecture, free and open to the public, is titled “Plane Tilings.” It is aimed at a general audience.

Stanley received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1971. He has been a member of the department of mathematics at MIT since 1973. His research area is combinatorics.

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995, Stanley has given numerous distinguished lectures over the course of his career and was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid in 2006. He was also awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the American Mathematical Society in 2001.

The lecture will be preceded by a dinner co-sponsored by the department of mathematics and computer science and the Mathematical Association of America. For more information about the dinner, please contact Professor Tom Cecil of the department of mathematics and computer science before April 10 at 508-793-2719 or cecil@mathcs.holycross.edu.

The annual mathematical lecture series is a tribute to Leonard C. Sulski who taught in the mathematics department at Holy Cross from 1965 until his death from leukemia in 1991.