The University of Chicago

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

announces the

1999 ANNUAL CHARLES J. AMICK LECTURES
by

John Guckenheimer
Cornell University

THREE LECTURES ON

Dynamical Systems and Neural Systems I:  Death of Periodicity
Friday, June 4, 4:00 - Room 251
Ryerson Hall  1100 E. 58th Street

Dynamical Systems and Neural Systems II:  Mapping
Parameter Spaces
Monday, June 7, 4:00 - Room 251
Ryerson Hall - 1100 E. 58th Street 

Computing Periodic Orbits of Vector  Fields
Tuesday, June 8, 4:00 - Room 251
Ryerson Hall - 1100 E. 58th Street 

Tea will be served in the Common Room, Eckhart 209, 30 minutes before each
lecture.
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Charles James Amick, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago,
died of cancer on June 3, 1991, at the age of 39.  He earned his doctorate at
the University of Cambridge in 1977 and joined the Mathematics Department at
the University of Chicago as an instructor in 1979.  His work centered on
mathematical problems in fluid dynamics.  He was internationally recognized
for
his work on water waves, and made lasting contributions in a variety of areas
of applied mathematics.  He had a special ability to bring a deep knowledge of
mathematical analysis to bear on specific mathematical problems.
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