Arnold Ross birthday conference program

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CONFERENCE - REUNION - PARTY

Here is a link to the group photo taken at this reunion.
Abstracts for some lectures are available by clicking on the title.

08:30: coffee and donuts in Math Tower lounge (room 724)
09:00-10:00: David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania: "Symmetries of fields and covers"
10:30-11:00: David Sze, Bellcore: "The usefulness of rigorous math training in industry"
11:15-11:45: Chris Haase, Glynn Scientific, Inc.: "Trends in telecommunications"
Lunch
13:30-14:00: Ira Gessel, Brandeis University: "Combinatorial proofs of congruences"
14:00: coffee, tea and snacks in Math Tower lounge
14:30-15:30: Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University: "Theory of finite sets, some linear algebra and a geometric application"
15:45-16:15: David Fried, Boston University: "Dynamical systems and continued fractions"
16:30-17:00: Larry Taylor, University of Notre Dame: "The current state of affairs in the theory of 4-manifolds"
18:30: Ultimate Frisbee game on field south of Stadium

08:30: coffee and donuts in Math Tower lounge
09:00-10:00: Soccer game
10:00-10:30: Colin Wright, "Juggling - theory and practice"
11:00-12:00, (An "Arnold Ross Lecture" sponsored by the American Mathematical Society): Thomas Banchoff, Brown University: "Higher-dimensional geometry and the Internet"
12:15: Group photograph
Lunch
14:00-15:00 (An "Arnold Ross Lecture" sponsored by the American Mathematical Society): Charles Fefferman, Princeton University: "Turbulence"
15:00: coffee, tea and snacks in Math Tower lounge
16:00-16:30: Terry Bisson, Canisius College: "Calculus with pebbles"
16:45-17:15: Pierre Bouchard, Universite du Quebec a Montreal: "Introduction to Joyal's theory of species"
18:00-21:00: Banquet at Faculty Club

08:30: coffee and donuts in Math Tower lounge
09:30-10:30: Karl Rubin, Ohio State University: "The arithmetic of elliptic curves"
11:00-12:00: Alice Silverberg, Ohio State University: "Points of finite order on abelian varieties"
Lunch
13:30-14:00: Ronald Greenberg, Loyola University: "Some applications of sophisticated mathematics to randomized computing"
14:15-14:45: Glenn Stevens, Boston University: "Continued fractions, SL2(Z), and modular elliptic curves"
15:00-15:30: Keith Conrad, Harvard University: "Coefficients of cyclotomic polynomials"
15:45-16:15: David Pollack, Harvard University: "The Hasse principle - relating local and global data"