A Mathematics Conference in Honor of Professor Thomas Osler’s 70th Birthday

April 16-17, 2010
Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ 08028
There will be a dinner party honoring Dr Osler on Friday April 16. Please register online here, where you will also find details about the dinner party.
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 16, 2010
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Time |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
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3:30- 3:40pm |
Hieu Nguyen (Chair) Parivz Ansari (Dean) |
Opening Remarks |
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3:40- 4:30pm |
Ramanujan's Life and Notebooks (Abstract) |
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6:00 - 9:00pm |
Dinner at Owl’s Nest |
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
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Time |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
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8:30 – 9am |
Registration |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Ali Houshmand, Provost |
Opening Remarks |
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9:15 – 10:05 |
Lessons from Ramanujan's Lost Notebook (Abstract) |
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10:10 – 10:30 |
Walter Jacob |
Fidelity National Information Systems |
A Modern Look at a Neglected Summation Formula by Euler (Abstract) |
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:50 -11:40 |
The Start of Trigonometry and Related Results(Abstract) |
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11:45 – 12:15 |
Planar Bi-arc Curves (Abstract) |
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12:15 – 2:00 |
Lunch Break |
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2:00 – 2:30 |
A Heuristic Method for the Evaluation of Integrals (Abstract) |
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2:35 – 2:50 |
Jason Scaramazza |
Rowan University |
A Musical Conjecture by Euler (Abstract) |
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2:55 – 3:10 |
Jonathan Weisbrod |
Rowan University |
Exploring a Pythagorean Ternary Tree (Abstract) |
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3:10 – 3:25 |
Coffee Break |
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3:30- 4:20 |
Ramanujan Reaches His Hand from His Grave to Snatch Your Theorems from You(Abstract) |
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4:25 - |
Closing Remarks |
Organizers: Abdul Hassen (hassen@rowan.edu), Hieu Nguyen (nguyen@rowan.edu ), Chris Simons (simons@rowan.edu ), Jay Schiffman (schiffman@rowan.edu ), Marcus Wright (wright@rowan.edu)