John Milnor, of SUNY at Stony Brook, will give a
University Lecture at UW-Madison:
"Pasting Together Julia Sets"
Friday, December 11, 1998
4:00 PM, B239 Van Vleck Hall
Reception afterward in 9th floor lounge
John Milnor has spent much of his mathematical career so far at
Princeton, starting as an undergraduate, continuing as a graduate
student, and on the faculty of Princeton University and of the
Institute for Advanced Study during 1954-1967 and 1970-1989. He has also
been on the faculties of UCLA and Princeton. He is now director of the
Institute for Mathematical Sciences at SUNY Stony Brook.
Prof. Milnor has received countless honors for his work in topology,
including the Fields Medal which is sometimes referred to as the
Nobel Prize for Mathematics. In addition to his outstanding
contributions to mathematical research, he is known as an excellent
teacher and expositor.
