Dr Peter Clive Sarnak, internationally acclaimed mathematician and number theory expert, is this year's keynote speaker at the Weierstrass Lecture at Paderborn University. On Friday, 12 June, the scientist will give an insight into current topics of his research. Anyone interested can attend the event at 4 p.m. in lecture theatre O1; prior registration is not necessary. The lecture will be held in English.

Prof Sarnak was a professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, USA, until 1991. Since 1991 he has been a professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, also in the USA. At the same time, he was a professor at the Courant Institute at New York University from 2001 to 2005. Since 2007, he has been one of eight permanent members of the prestigious School of Mathematics at Princeton. His honours include the George Pólya Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Ostrowski Prize and the Levi L. Constant Prize of the American Mathematical Society. He was honoured with the Frank Nelson Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his work on number theory.

The lecture continues a Paderborn lecture series that has also attracted great international attention. The lecturers are selected by an independent jury, which currently includes professors Martin Kolb (Paderborn), Gérard Laumon (Paris) and David Vogan (Cambridge, USA). The series of events is named after Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), who graduated from the Theodorianum grammar school in Paderborn in 1834 as "primus omnium", i.e. the best graduate of the school. Weierstrass was one of the most important mathematicians of the 19th century and is considered the founder of modern analysis, among other things.

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