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Professor Guillermo Sapiro invited to present at Abel Lectures in Oslo, Norway
2009-04-06 14:20-05.00
His Magesty King Harald of Norway will present the 2009 Abel Prize to Professor Mikhail Gromov, Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France, on May 19 in Olso, Norway. The following day, on May 20, ECE Professor Guillermo Sapiro will present the Science Lecture at the University of Oslo as part of a series of four lectures which will begin with Gromov's presention. Professor Sapiro will be reviewing the mathematics behind Professor Gromov's impact on image and shape analysis. The Abel Prize is considered by the mathematics community to be the "Nobel of Math." As is stated on the Abel Prize Web site, Professor Gromov "played a decisive role in the creation of modern global Riemannian geometry. In addition, Gromov discovered the geometry of discrete groups and solved several outstanding problems. His geometrical approach rendered complicated combinatorial arguments much more natural and powerful."