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2011 November, Mark's
article The
mathematician's tale, appears in The
New Millennium Tales by Kevin Lavery and Reg Starkey. 1st
November, Mark's essay Removing the neutrino anomaly,
on the apparent speed of neutrinos being faster than light, is published in Standpoint Magazine, November 2011,
p. 68. 6th
October, Professor Ronan's course on Lie Groups and Lie Algebras starts today
at University College London. 1st
September, Mark's essay Euro
soap opera, on the new Bayreuth production of Tannhaeuser and the
Euro Crisis, is published in Standpoint
Magazine, September 2011, p. 13. 27th July,
Mark's review
of Tannhaeuser at Bayreuth appears
in the Daily Telegraph. 1st July, Mark's
essay The genius of geometry, on
the mystery of Euclid's life, is published in Standpoint Magazine, July/August 2011, p. 83. 15th April,
Mark's essay Lighting
Design for Ballet,
appears in Focus, The Journal of
the Association of Lighting Designers, April/May 2011, p. 28–32 10th
March, 6 p.m., Mark's talk The
Importance of Proving Things takes place at Gresham College. He discusses Euclid's
work at the great library of Alexandria, explains the parallel lines
postulate, and the development of non-Euclidean geometry two thousand years
later. 18th
February, Mark's review of Ian Glynn's book Elegance in Science appears in the Times Literary Supplement
(p.27). 10th
January – 21st March, Mark gives a course on Lie Groups and
Lie Algebras at University College London. 1st
January, Mark is appointed to the Olivier Awards Panel for Opera for the year
2011. 1st
January, Mark's essay University Challenged, on
the stifling bureaucracy in universities, is published in Standpoint Magazine, January/February
2011, p. 12. 2010 24th
December, Mark's review
of Die Walk¸re at La Scala
appears in the Daily Telegraph. 22nd
October, Mark will speak on Symmetry
and the Monster at the Banking Technology
Summit (BTS) 2010 to be held from 21st to 24th October in
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. 18th
October, Mark will speak on The Origins
of Language and Writing in the Monday Lecture Series at
the University of the Third Age, 10:20 at Hampstead Town Hall, Haverstock
Hill, London. 1st
September, Mark's essay On
Her Majesty's Secret Service, about the Bletchley Park
code-breakers and GCHQ, is published in Standpoint
Magazine, September 2010, p. 64. 27th
– 30th July, Mark will be in Sydney. He will give a talk at
the HNA convention on 29th July. He will also talk on Symmetry and the Monster at the
University of Sydney in the Joint
Colloquium series. 1st
May, Mark's essay Never
too Old, on the value of learning ancient Greek, is published in Standpoint Magazine, May 2010,
p. 13. 1st
April, Mark's essay Maths
Class, on the sensible way to teach arithmetic and elementary
algebra, is published in Standpoint Magazine,
April 2010, p. 13. 22nd
March, Talk on The Calendar, WIZO,
London N20. 1st
January, Mark's essay Experts and Axioms, on
how experts can be wrong, even in mathematics, is published in Standpoint Magazine, January/February
2010, p. 13. 2009 14th December, Talk on The Calendar, Hammerson House,
London N2. 1st
December, Mark's essay Unsound
Science, on the government's recent misguided proposal to evaluate
the social and economic impact of scientific research, is published by Standpoint Magazine, December 2009,
p. 10/11. 10th
November, Talk on Symmetry and the
Monster, at Dulwich College, London SE21. 30th
October, Talk on Symmetry and the
Monster, at Imperial College, in the Clore Lecture Theatre at 12:30. 15th
October, Mark's new revised edition of Lectures on Buildings is published by the
University of Chicago Press. 14th
October, Talk on Origins of Language
and Writing, to the League of Jewish Women, London N14. 12th
October, Talk on Symmetry and the
Monster, at Tower Hamlets College, London E14. 1st
October, Mark's essay Maths Moves in Mysterious
Ways, on the development of mathematics from Greeks to Arabs to
Europe and America, is published by Standpoint
Magazine, October 2009, p. 89. 29th September, Talk on Symmetry, at the Highgate Literary and
Scientific Institute. 17th August, Talk on Origins of Language and Writing,
Hammerson House, London N2. 12th June, Mark's review of Frank
Close's book, Antimatter, is
published by the Times Literary
Supplement (12 June, p. 13). 1st June, Mark's essay Facing the Music
on Ronald Harwood's plays Collaboration
and Taking Sides, dealing with
music and the Nazis, is published by Standpoint magazine. 22nd May, Mark's review of Ian
Stewart's book, Taming the Infinite
— The Story of Mathematics, is published by the Times Literary Supplement
(22 May, p. 28). 1st May, Mark's review of Ian
Stewart's book, Professor Stewart's
Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, is published by the Times Literary Supplement (1 May,
p. 28). 1st April, Mark's essay Taking
research for granted, on the haphazard support for research in
mathematics and science in Britain, is published by Standpoint magazine. 26th January, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at the
Garrick Club. 20th January, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at St.
Paul's Girls School. 16th January, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at Cambridge
University, in Meeting Room 5 of the Centre for Math. Science, Wilberforce
Road. 2008 4th December, Talk on Gilgamesh and the Cuneiform Writing System, at Westminster
School. 1st December, Mark's review of
John Barrow's recent book, 1000 things
you didn't know you didn't know, is published by Standpoint. 1st November, Mark's essay Ditch the new maths
for good old Euclid, on bringing back Euclidean geometry to the
school curriculum, is published by Standpoint. 10th October, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at Westminster School. 29th September, Mark's two articles on Lie Theory and Buildings are published in the Princeton Companion to
Mathematics. 4th May: Excerpts from Mark's recent
programmes were chosen as one of the items for Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4 at 18:15. 28th, 29th, 30th April
and 1st May: four 15-minute programmes by Mark Ronan on BBC Radio
3. The programmes start with the life and work of Galois who died in a duel
in 1832, and go on to describe subsequent developments leading to the Monster
in the late 20th century; they form The Essay
for the week, and can be heard on the 'Listen Again' feature at 30th April, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at Eton College. 19th March, The Japanese translation
of Symmetry and the Monster is
published by Iwanami Shoten in Japan. 20th February, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at 1 p.m. in
Gresham
College. February, Mark's reviews of four recent
mathematics books (authors: Ian Stewart, Mario Livio, John Derbyshire, Marcus
du Sautoy) appear in the Times Literary
Supplement (15 February) and Nature
(7 February). January, The University of Chicago Press confirm
that they will publish a reprint of Lectures on
Buildings, with new material by the author. 2007 December, Korean translation rights for Symmetry and the Monster are purchased
by the Sallim Publishing Company in Korea. 8th November, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, at 3 p.m. in
Ryerson 352 at The University of Chicago. 5th November, The Italian translation
of Symmetry and the Monster, with
the title Il
mostro e la simmetria is published by Cortina of Milan. 30th October, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, in the UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Series,
1:15 p.m. in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London WC1. An internet
relay of the talk is available. 29th October, Talk on Symmetry and the Monster, The Warwick
Mathematics Society, at 5:30 p.m. in Room MS.02 of the Mathematics Department
at the University of Warwick. 12th – 17th August,
Mark gave four talks in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore as a guest of SilverLake
Axis, a large-scale software company based in Kuala Lumpur and active
throughout Southeast Asia. 17th May, Talk on Building
Twins, London Algebra Seminar, Imperial College London. 16th May, Talk on The
Local to Global Structure of Buildings, Pure Mathematics Seminar,
University of Birmingham. 14th May, Talk on The
Local to Global Structure of Buildings, Pure Mathematics Seminar, Queen
Mary College, London University. 17th January, Talk on
Symmetry and the Monster, Mathematics Department, University College
London 2006
3rd December: interview with Mark Lynch on his Inquiry program, broadcast on WICN
Public Radio in New England. November: Italian translation rights for Symmetry and the Monster are purchased by the publishers Cortina
of Milan. October: Japanese translation rights for Symmetry and the Monster are purchased by the publishers Iwanami
Shoten in Japan. 29th September, Talk on
Symmetry and the Monster, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois
at Chicago 24th May, Symmetry and the Monster; followed by The Monster and String Theory, by Katrin Wendland, at The
Lighthill Institute of Mathematics, University College London. pdf 16th May, Symmetry
and the Monster, talk and book launch, Savile Club, London 9th May, Moonshine for groups, and sunshine for geometry: the resolution of an old conjecture,
University of Oxford Algebra Seminar 9th May, Talk on
Symmetry and the Monster, University of Oxford, Invariants Society 8th May, Talk on Symmetry
and the Monster, Mathematics Dept., Queen Mary College, University of
London 5th May, Talk on Symmetry
and the Monster, Mathematics Dept., University of Nottingham 4th May, Talk on Symmetry
and the Monster, Mathematics Dept., University of Birmingham |
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