During 2012 the MSI will host a number of public lectures followed by social events.
The first of these lectures will be held on 17 February 2012. It will be presented by Professor Michael Eastwood. Watch this space in mid-January 2012 for more information. We look forward to welcoming you!

Professor Eastwood is one of the world’s leading experts in conformal differential geometry, and much of his work is concerned with geometry and symmetry. His work on the development of transform methods linking mathematical physics, differential geometry, harmonic analysis and special function theory is internationally acclaimed.

Professor Eastwood obtained his PhD in mathematics at Princeton University in 1976. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford in collaboration with Roger Penrose and his school, before joining The University of Adelaide in 1985. He has been awarded several ARC Fellowships, including three Senior Research Fellowships and one Australian Professorial Fellowship. Since January 2009, he holds a prestigious ARC Federation Fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra.

In 1992, Professor Eastwood was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences and in 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.