The Topic:  Analysis, Algebra and Topology are three major areas of Mathematics often seen as separate subdisciplines. They do, however, interact with each other in manifold ways, and discoveries in one area have often germinated new ideas in one of the others. In this lecture, I will discuss some instances of the interplay between these three areas, in particular from my own research.

The Speaker:  Martin Mathieu is the Professor of Pure Mathematics in the Mathematical Sciences Research Centre of Queen’s University. He received his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen (Germany) in 1987 and his Habilitation from the same institution in 1991. He also taught at the University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken; the University of Iowa; Trinity College Dublin; University College Cork; Maynooth University, and came to Queen’s as a lecturer in 1998. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers and (co-)authored or edited seven books. Professor Mathieu was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 and served as President of the Irish Mathematical Society in 2013 and 2014.

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