Professor Bruce E. Berndt, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was the Mahler Lecturer for 2005.
Professor Berndt’s research is in the areas of number theory, elliptic functions, q-series, continued fractions, charactersums, classical analysis and Ramanujan’s notebooks.
He spoke at the 49th AustMS Annual Conference in September 2005 and at a number of member universities on the subject of Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook.
