Scattering Theory, or Looking at the Big Picture

Join us for a public lecture from Professor and Laureate Fellow Andrew Hassell from the Mathematics Sciences Institute at The Australian National University. Light refreshments will be served afterwards.

Abstract

Scattering theory, in mathematics, is a way of studying complex interactions by focusing on the “before” and “after” states, without worrying too much about the “in-between”, which is usually much harder to understand. I’ll start with simple examples and (aspirationally) work up to some examples of recent research interest.

About the speaker

Andrew Hassell is currently a Professor and Associate Director of Research in the Mathematical Sciences Institute at ANU.

His PhD was done at MIT in the period 1990-94. After that, he did a 2 year postdoc at Stanford University, and then he moved to ANU, initially as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow. He became an ARC Research Fellow during 1999-2004, and a Future Fellow during 2010-2014. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2013.