This event was also a reunion for the alumni of Professor Arnold Ross's summer program for high school students talented in mathematics. Professor Ross began this multi-level summer program in 1957 and he ran it every summer until 2000, giving the number theory lecture each morning.
Click to see two
group photos of that reunion. Further photos from 2001 have been posted by Dan Bach at
Dansmath.
All lectures will be held in ea160 on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus.
Times are subject to change.
FRIDAY:
9:00 - 10:00 refreshments in lounge
10:00 Opening Remarks
10:15 - 11:00 G. Whitney, "Are two crystal balls better than one?"
11:15 - 12:00 T. Weston, "The Dirichlet class number formula."
lunch (snacks in lounge)
1:30 - 2:15 S. Haber, "How to time-stamp a digital document."
2:25 - 2:45 J. Riedl, "Collaborative Intelligence for Information Filtering."
2:45 - 3:45 tea break in lounge
3:45 - 4:30 T. Roby, "Teaching cultures in the US, China, & Japan."
4:40 - 5:00 D. Fried, "Beyond continued fractions."
SATURDAY:
9:00 - 10:00 refreshments in lounge
10:00 - 10:20 P. Hersh, "Moebius functions in combinatorics."
10:30 - 11:15 G. Francis, "The geometrical puppetshow."
11:25 - 11:45 J. Lurie, "Combinatorial games."
11:45 - 1:30 lunch (snacks in lounge)
1:30 - 4:30 Wexner Center showing of "Fermat's Last Tango."
6:30 - 10:30? BANQUET in honor of Arnold Ross at the River Club (RSVP !!)
SUNDAY:
9:00 - 10:00 refreshments in lounge
10:00 - 10:45 L. Evans,
"A very heavy dose of old-fashioned
plane geometry and some recent developments."
10:50 - 11:10 M. Berriozabal and M. Warshauer,
"Summer math programs following the Ross tradition."
11:15 - 11:35 T. Banchoff, "Twice as old-again."
11:40 - 12:00 A. Borchers, "The Steiner tree problem."
12:00 - 12:15 Group photos taken.
12:15 - 1:30 Women Alumnae Lunch.
12:15 - 1:30 lunch (snacks in lounge)
1:30 - 1:45 M. Richard, "Mathematics is independent of time."
1:50 - 2:10 C. Blair, "The sum of reciprocals of primes."
2:20 - 2:50 P. Bouchard, "The circles group."
2:50 - 3:30 tea break in lounge
3:30 - 3:50 T. Hagedorn, "Mathematics and Bioinformatics."
4:00 - 4:45 K. Conrad, "For two special reasons."
We are grateful to the Number Theory Foundation for a grant to provide partial support for the younger participants.
Further thanks are due to the Clay Mathematics Institute, which is not only providing major support for this Reunion-Conference but is working once again as a partner of the Ross Program in running the high school summer program pioneered long ago by Arnold Ross.
Sincerely,
Daniel Shapiro
shapiro@math.ohio-state.edu
(614)-292-5101