Dear All, We are delighted to present the MaPSS Seminar topic of Monday 9th May; please see the abstract below. **From this Semester the Seminar will always run on Monday, at 5:00pm in 535A** Following the talk, there will be pizza on offer. Speaker: Jack Moon (Sydney University) Title: Lax pair equations and harmonic maps Abstract: Lax pairs are a simple Lie algebra differential and a common object in integrable systems. We wish to introduce Lax pair equations as a natural way to construct harmonic maps, and we wish to look at their solutions. Furthermore we’ll look at methods at constructing additional solutions via a method known as dressing. Supervisors, please encourage your students to attend. Thanks, MaPSS Organizers