"On Growth and Form - A Physical Basis for Morphogenesis"

5:00 pm in the Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

L. Mahadevan

L. Mahadevan de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Professor of Physics,
Harvard University

L. Mahadevan did his undergraduate studies in IIT-Madras, India, and received his Ph.D. at Stanford University, CA. He started his independent career at MIT, and following that, was the Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity. He joined Harvard University in the fall of 2003, where he is currently the de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and
Professor of Physics.

His work centers around using mathematics to understand the physical and biological organization of matter in space and time, particularly at the scale of the everyday world, and is closely tied in with experience and experiments. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Edgerton prize from MIT and the Ledlie prize from Harvard for outstanding research, and various named lectures including the G I Taylor Lecture at the Cambridge Philosophical Society (2001), the Alan Tayler Lecture at Oxford University (2003), the Singleton Lectures at MIT (2010), and the Amick Lectures at the University of Chicago (2011).