The following lectures will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Mathematics. Professor Etienne Ghys, of ENS, Lyon, will give the Fifty-Eighth Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled The topology of the geodesic flow on the modular surface, at 5 p.m. on 21 November, in the Founder Patrons Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
The Clay Lectures on Mathematics. Lectures will be hosted by the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. The Public Lectures will take place in the Weston Room and others in the Wolfson Room.
Professor Akshay Venkatesh, of the Courant Institute, will give the following lectures:
| 28 November, 4.30 p.m. | Some theorems of Hardy, Littlewood, and Ramanujan. Partitions and sums of squares |
| 29 November, 4.30 p.m. | Some theorems of Linnik, Duke, and Iwaniec |
| 30 November, 8 p.m. | Adding square numbers (Public Lecture) |
| 1 December, 4.30 pm | A survey of modern developments |
Professor Ben Green, of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, will give the following lectures:
| 28 November, 5.45 p.m. | The structure theory of set addition. Freiman's theorem |
| 29 November, 5.45 p.m. | Gowers norms and nilsequences |
| 30 November, 6.30 p.m. | Adding prime numbers (Public Lecture) |
| 1 December, 5.45 p.m. | The idempotent theorem: an application of additive combinatorics to harmonic analysis |