EIGHT LECTURES BY PROFESSOR GEORGE ANDREWS
Evan Pugh Professor George Andrews* of The Pennsylvania
State University, the world's greatest authority on the
theory of partitions and the work of the Indian mathematical
genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, will give a series of six lectures
in the mathematics department on topics related to Ramanujan's
Lost Notebook during his two month visit to the University
of Florida, Jan 23 - Mar 25, 2005. Professor Andrews is also
very well known for his ideas on mathematics education, and
therefore he will give two lectures to a general audience
organized by the CLAS Dean's Math-Sci Committee. Details
of the lecture schedules are given below.
Professor Andrews' visit to the University of Florida is in
connection with the Special Year in Number Theory and
Combinatorics 2004-05 conducted by the Mathematics Department.
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Six Lectures in the Math Dept by George Andrews
on Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
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Monday, January 24, 4:00 pm
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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM. LIT 121
An overview - what did Ramanujan have
up his sleeve?
Refreshments after the talk in LIT 339.
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Tuesday, February 8, 12:50 pm
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NUMBER THEORY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR, LIT 339
The Heine idea
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Tuesday, February 15, 12:50 pm
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NUMBER THEORY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR, LIT 339
Partial fractions
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Tuesday, February 22, 12:50 pm
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NUMBER THEORY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR, LIT 339
Partial theta functions
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Tuesday, March 15, 12:50 pm
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NUMBER THEORY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR, LIT 339
Wild things
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Tuesday, March 22, 12:50 pm
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NUMBER THEORY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR, LIT 339
Entire functions
Two General Lectures by George Andrews
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Monday, February 14, 4:00 pm
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For CLAS Math-Sci Committee, Keene Center
The joy of collaboration - why pure
mathematical scientists should not mind
their own business
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Tuesday, February 22, 4:00 pm
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For CLAS Math-Sci Committee, Keene Center
Research mathematical scientists and
mathematics education
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: George Andrews, one of the world's most eminent
mathematicians, is the premier authority in the theory of partitions
and q-hypergeometric series. He shot to fame in the 1970s when he
discovered Ramanujan's Lost Notebook at the Wren Library in Cambridge
University and wrote a series of important papers in Advances in
Mathematics in which he explained Ramanujan's spectacular results
in the context of current research, and in that process made
fundamental improvements as well. He and Professor Bruce Berndt of
the University of Illinois are currently "editing" Ramanujan's Lost
Notebook which will be published by Springer. Hence the choice of
topics for his six lectures in the mathematics department.
He is also very well known for his views on mathematics education,
and for his role as an ambassador for the discipline. Hence he will
give the two general lectures organized by the CLAS Dean's
Math-Sci Committee.
In a long and distinguished career spanning several decades,
Professor Andrews has received numerous recognitions, including
the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982-82, the invitation to give the
Hedrick Lectures for the Mathematical Association of America in 1980,
the election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997,
the award of an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Florida
in 2002, and the election to the National Academy of Sciences in
2004.
University of Florida *
Mathematics *
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