Conference - Reunion - Party
In Honor of Dr. Ross's Nintieth Birthday
and the 40th year of the ROSS MATHEMATICS
PROGRAM
August 9 - 11, 1996
Here is a link to a larger
group photo
taken at this reunion.
Abstracts for some lectures are available by clicking on the title.
Friday, August 9
- 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
Saturday, August 10
- 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
Sunday, August 11
- 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"