Mathematician and physicist Kay Kirkpatrick will discuss her most recent research in an American Mathematical Society Graduate Chapter lecture at 4 p.m. April 13 in Avery Hall, Room 115.

The talk, “Bio-Logic: New Views on Biology and Computation,” is free and open to the public.

Women in science, technology, engineering and math fields may attend a free lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The lunch is an RSVP-only event, limited to 50 participants with priority to women in STEM fields. Register for the lunch online.

Kirkpatrick is an associate professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She recently serves as a Simons Fellow Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.