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As the
University of Florida
celebrates its
Sesquicentennial
in a grand fashion this calendar year, the mathematics
department has an event packed Spring 2003 - perhaps
the most eventful semester in the department's history
thus far! Many of these programs are connected with the
Special Year in Algebra
in honor of
John Thompson
for his
70-th birthday.
Krishnaswami Alladi
Chairman
Department of Mathematics
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
Significant Events in Spring 2003
- Feb 19
- History Lecture by
Mike Fried
of UC Irvine
(Fried is one of
the world authorities in Galois Theory and Arithmetic Geometry)
- Feb 24
- Erdos Colloquium by
Benedict Gross
of Harvard University
(Gross won the Cole Prize of the Amer. Math. Soc. a few years ago)
- Mar 1-2
-
9-th Southeastern Logic Symposium
organized by
Jindrich Zapletal
- Mar 3-7
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Workshop on
Computational Aspects of Algebraic Curves and Cryptography
organized by
Gerhard Frey
and
Helmut Voelklein
- Mar 6-12
-
International
Conference Group Theory 2003
organized by
Chat Ho,
Peter Sin,
Pham Tiep
and
Alexandre Turull.
- Mar 6
- (Morning) Inaugural Lecture of Conference
on Group Theory by
Michael Aschbacher
of the California Institute of Technology
(Aschbacher is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the
AMS Cole Prize in 1980).
- (Afternoon) Ulam Colloquium by
Gerhard Frey
of Essen, Germany
(Frey shot to fame when he provided an important criterion that
was crucial in the resolution of Fermat's Last Theorem, one
of the greatest mathematical problems)
- Mar 18
- History Lecture on Group Theory by
Ron Solomon
of Ohio State
University (Solomon is one of the key figures in the current
Classification of Finite Simple Groups)
- Mar 21-23
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International Conference on Number Theory and Combinatorics in Physics
organized by
Frank Garvan,
Alexander Berkovich
and
Khandker Muttalib
(Physics)
- Mar 21
- History Lecture
by
George Andrews
of Penn State University
connected to conference theme (Andrews, the world's greatest
authority on partitions and on the work of
Ramanujan, received
an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Florida on Dec 21)
- Mar 31
- First Joint Math/Stat Colloquium by
C. R. Rao
of Penn State
University (Rao, one of the world's most eminent statisticians,
was awarded the National Medal of Science a few months ago)
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