Visiting Scholars

The regular program activities are supplemented by diverse weekly lectures by faculty preceptors, Mentors, and guests of the program. These lectures introduce participants to related scientific fields and include discussions of career development and the ethics and philosophy of science; relationship between pure and applied science; and career options.

Guest Lectures 2005

July 15	Matthew Szudzik	(Wolfram Research)	Who was Laszlo Kalmar and what were his functions?
July 18	Curt Monash	(Monash Information Services)	The Power of Maybe
July 29	Kiran Kedlaya	(MIT)	Elliptic Curves
August 2	Cleve Moler	(The MathWorks, Inc.)	The Evolution of MATLAB
August 4	Keith Conrad	(University of Connecticut)	Check Digits

Guest Lectures 2004

July 16	Robert Pollack	(Boston University)	Unique Factorization and Diophantine Equations
July 19	Ira Gessel	(Brandeis University)	The Chung-Feller theorem
July 21	Matthew Szudzik	(Wolfram Research)	Exploring Recursively Defined Sequences
August 2	David Jao	(Microsoft Research)	Codebreaking
August 4	Keith Conrad	(University of Connecticut)	Quaternions
August 6	Paul Gunnells	(UMass Amherst)	Diophantine Equations in Polynomials

Guest Lectures 2003

August 3	Keith Conrad	(UC San Diego)	The End of Continued Fractions
August 5	Henry Cohn	(Microsoft Research)	Self-reference

Guest Lectures 2002

July 17	David Miller	(Aventis Pharmaceuticals)	Bioinformatics and Gene Expression Analysis
July 19	Henry Cohn	(Microsoft Research)	Sphere Packing
July 31	Jonathan Lubin	(Brown University)	p-adic Numbers
August 2	Paul Gunnells	(UMass Amherst)	Continued Fractions and Hyperbolic Geometry
August 9	Keith Conrad	(UC San Diego)	Sums of Three Squares

Guest Lectures 2001

July 27	David Jao	(Harvard University)	41 Primes in a Row
August 3	Dev Sinha	(University of Oregon)	Some Knotty Problems

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