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Alumni in the Spotlight
Renowned mathematical theorist
speaks at Clemson
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| Eric Mendelsohn, a combinatorial design theorist
from the University of Toronto, delivered the Andrew F. Sobczyk
Memorial Lecture. |
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 Eric
Mendelsohn, a combinatorial design theorist from the University
of Toronto, delivered the Andrew F. Sobczyk Memorial Lecture at
Clemson recently. The lecture was sponsored by the departments of
mathematical science and physics and astronomy. The topic of the
lecture was “The Evolution of Intelligent Designs.”
Combinatorial
design is the use of mathematical objects to solve various problems,
including determining, through a small number of experiments, which
drugs have harmful or beneficial effects when combined with other
drugs, the ability to receive pictures clearly from outer space,
the ability to map the human genome, the capability to use digital
cellular phones and the ability to listen to and write compact disks.
Mendelsohn
is professor in the mathematics and computer science departments
at the University of Toronto. He has written more than 80 scientific
papers in graph theory, universal algebra and combinatorial design
theory. He has given lectures in Canada, China, Czech Republic,
England, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Iran, Italy, Scotland and the
United States.
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