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SUMMARY:Frontiers in Natural Sciences: Dean’s Annual Lecture – AI and t
 he Long Conversation of Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Frontiers in Natural Sciences: The Dean’s Ann
 ual Lecture 2026\, delivered by Geordie Williamson on the subject of ‘AI
  and the long conversation of mathematics’.\nPlease do register your in 
 person attendance by clicking the ‘Register Now’ button.\nAbstract\nMa
 thematics has been called humanity’s long conversation. Observations of 
 Euclid\, Pythagoras\, Euler and Poincaré still occupy the minds of mathem
 aticians today. This conversation has experienced shocks and challenges\, 
 including the crisis of foundations in the early 20th century\, and the fi
 rst computer assisted proofs in the second half of the 20th century. We ar
 e currently in the midst of another shock\, with the rise of formal proof 
 and the first signs of AI systems helping to produce research-level mathem
 atics. This raises questions of fundamental importance: How should mathema
 ticians respond to AI? Will AI systems help (or hinder) our understanding 
 of the mathematical world? Williamson will discuss some recent development
 s at the interface of mathematics and AI\, with the aim of having a cleare
 r picture of this unique point in the history of mathematics.\nSynopsis\nG
 eordie Williamson works in the structural side of mathematics\, and has do
 ne early work at the interface of mathematics and AI. He has made several 
 fundamental contributions including his proof (with Ben Elias) of the Kazh
 dan-Lusztig positivity conjecture\, his algebraic proof of the Jantzen con
 jectures\, and his discovery of counter-examples to the expected bounds in
  the Lusztig conjecture in modular representation theory. This last result
  came as a shock to a whole community of researchers\, and has since shift
 ed the focus away from old conjectures.\nFor his work he has been awarded 
 the Chevalley Prize of the American Mathematical Society\, the European Ma
 thematics Society Prize\, the Clay Research Award\, the New Horizons Prize
  in Mathematics (with Ben Elias)\, the Chauvenet Prize and two ICBS Fronti
 ers of Science Awards. He addressed the International Congress of Mathemat
 icians as a plenary speaker in 2018\, and as a public speaker in 2022 and 
 2026. More recently\, he was awarded an Australian Research Council Laurea
 te Fellowship and the Max Planck Humboldt Research Award.\nFrontiers in Na
 tural Sciences: Dean’s Annual Lecture\nEstablished in 2022\, the Dean’
 s Lecture explores the breadth and variety of activity at the frontiers of
  natural sciences.\nThis annual lecture series sees world-renowned speaker
 s\, who are chosen by each department in the Faculty\, discuss the future 
 of science and the fundamental work that underpins our most ambitious ende
 avours.\nThis event will be livestreamed. More information on this will be
  shared closer to the event.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211117/frontiers-in-natural-sciences-
 deans-annual-lecture-ai-and-the-long-conversation-of-mathematics/
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LOCATION:Royal College of Music\, Prince Consort Road\, London\, SW7 2BS\, 
 United Kingdom
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