September 19, 2013 - Mathematics of Planet Earth: A public lecture: "I think mathematics is the only language we really know that quantifies phenomena," says L. Mahadevan, professor of applied mathematics, physics, and biology at Harvard. Mahadevan will deliver a public lecture on the mathematics of the natural world - part of a celebratory worldwide lecture series - at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, in the Salomon Center for Teaching at Brown University. Proudly hosted by ICERM and sponsored by the Simons Foundation.