The Center Manifold

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Presentation Abstract

Presentation Date

9-27-2007

Abstract

After receiving a UM forestry degree in 1955, Al Kelley earned a doctoral degree in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He joined the mathematics department at UC-Santa Cruz in 1966. He worked as a smokejumper during summers while attending UM and made his first trip to California in 1954, landing by parachute to fight a fire there. He also worked as a forester in Oregon and as a U.S. Air Force radar officer. While teaching at Berkeley in 1964, Kelley discovered and named the center manifold, and he was among the first to recognize the importance of computers in mathematical research. He is the co-author of three widely used college textbooks on the C programming language.

Kelley is returning to campus to receive a 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UM Alumni Association. In this talk he will discuss the center manifold as well as his journey from forestry to mathematics to computer science.

Additional Details

Thursday, 27 September 2007
4:10 p.m. in Math 103
3:30 p.m. Refreshments in Math Lounge 109

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