Lexington Community Education presents Our Mathematical Universe

This evening, MIT professor and author Max Tegmark will lead us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he will not only help us grasp some of his often mind-boggling theories, but will he also share with us some of the triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last–Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality is a book that has already prompted the attention and admiration of some of the most prominent scientists and mathematicians.

A native of Stockholm, Max Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving

his B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology. He studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his M.A. in 1992, and Ph.D. in 1994. He began teaching at MIT in September 2004. Tegmark is an author on

more than two hundred technical papers, and has featured in dozens of science documentaries. He has received numerous awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship (2001-06), Cottrell Scholar Award (2002-07), and an NSF Career grant (2002-07), and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine’s “Breakthrough of the Year: 2003.”

This event will be held on Tuesday, February 24th from 7:00-8:30pm at the Lexington Depot. The cost of the event is $10.00. Pre-registration strongly recommended. To register, using a VISA or MasterCard, please contact Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.