About this Event
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🧠 Lecture: "Understanding the World Through Waves"
🎤 Speaker: Andy Schultz
Join us for a fascinating evening as Professor Andy Schultz reveals how waves shape the way we understand the world. We’ll start with the familiar image of a prism splitting white light into a rainbow—and then go far beyond it. White light is just one example of how mixtures of frequencies change what we see, hear, and even measure.
In this accessible talk, Andy will guide us into Fourier analysis, a branch of mathematics that shows how almost anything—light, sound, digital images, even fundamental particles—can be described as combinations of simple waves. Along the way, we’ll connect meteorites on Earth to distant asteroids, unpack how synthesizers and MP3s work, and explore why there are limits to how precisely we can understand the universe.
Andy Schultz is a Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College and an author of dozens of research articles spanning Galois theory, algebraic combinatorics, and the mathematics of voting.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event venue & nearby stays
Back Bay, Back Bay, Boston, United States
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