The Mathematics Department at UCI, with the support of NSF RTG grant DMS-1044150, is proud to present "Right Triangles and Elliptic Curves," by Professor Karl Rubin.

The event is part of a math seminar series for undergraduates and will take place on February 16th from 12 to 1 p.m. in Natural Sciences 2, Room 1201. The event is free and open to the public.

Professor Rubin is a Professor and the Edward and Vivian Thorp Chair in Mathematics. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 1981. He has received numerous honors and awards, including a Sloan Fellowship in 1985, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1988, the AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory in 1992, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994, and the Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 1999. He was an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians, and he gave an MAA Distinguished Lecture in Washington DC in 2008. Professor Rubin's CV, bibliography and other information can be found on his website: http://math.uci.edu/~krubin/