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A one-day meeting to mark the centenary of the death of Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903, sometime Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Master of Pembroke College) will be held on Tuesday, 18 March, at the Isaac Newton Institute. The meeting will be devoted to Stokes's scientific work and his influence on modern mathematics and science.
Programme:
10 a.m. Registration and coffee.
10.30 a.m. Stokes and the rainbow, by Professor Sir Michael Berry, of the University of Bristol.
11.30 a.m. Gibbs bivectors and Stokes parameters, by Professor Michael Hayes, of University College Dublin.
12 noon Stokes and the dynamics of viscous fluids, by Professor H. Keith Moffatt, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
2.15 p.m. Family background and early life, by Professor Alastair Wood, of Dublin City University.
3.15 p.m. G. G. Stokes, scientist and Victorian, by Professor David B. Wilson, of Iowa State University.
4.15 p.m. Tea.
4.45 p.m. Stokes's influence on differential geometry, by Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, of the University of Edinburgh.
Lunch will be available at nearby Wolfson Court.
A free exhibition of Stokes Memorabilia will be open from 6 p.m.-7.30 p.m. at Pembroke College.
There will be a dinner at Pembroke College at 7.30 p.m. The price is £40 per person inclusive of wines.
If you wish to attend this meeting please pre-book through the website at http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/ events/stokes/ where further details of this special event can be found.
This event is sponsored by the London Mathematical Society and Pembroke College.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 5 February 2003
Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.