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All lectures are in Room 107 of the Metcalf Science Center at 590 Commonwealth Avenue.

Friday, July 24:

12:30-1:30 Registration in the Metcalf Science Lounge

1:30: Welcome

1:45 – 2:35: Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research):

“High-Dimensional Mathematics”

3:00 – 3:50: Jonathan Hanke (University of Georgia, Mathematics):

“Sums of Squares, Quadratic Forms, and Finiteness Theorems”

Starting at 5:00: A picnic behind Marsh Chapel at the BU beach (PROMYS will provide boxed lunches for alums who have registered) * In case of rain we will meet in the Alley (lower level of the George Sherman Union -775 Commonwealth Ave.)

8:00-11:00 PROMYS Dance (Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s St. room 906)

Saturday, July 25:

10:00 – 10:50 Dev Sinha (University of Oregon, Mathematics):

“The up-side and down-side of ‘teaching someone to fish’”

11:10 – 12:00 Blair Dowling Sullivan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory):

“Using Mathematics to Connect the Dots”

Lunch (independently)

2:00 – 2:50 Tom Brennan (Northwestern University, Law and Finance):

“The Financial System Works: Prove or Disprove and Salvage if Possible”

3:10 – 4:00 David Jao (University of Waterloo, Mathematics):

“The Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography”

4:15 Group photo in front of Marsh Chapel

6:00 – 7:00 Jazz concert (The School of Management Atrium---595 Commonwealth Avenue)

Malcolm Campbell(Harvard ‘10, New England Conservatory ‘11) and

friends

7:00 – 10:00 20^th Anniversary Banquet ($30 per guest) (4^th Floor, BU School of Management

- 595 Commonwealth Avenue)

Sunday, July 26:

9:00 – 10:50 Morning activities

11:00 – 11:50 Cameron Freer (MIT, Mathematics):

“Computable Probability Theory”

12:10 – 12:30 The future of PROMYS -- we need everyone’s ongoing participation in generating ideas and directions for the future.

3:00 PROMYS/RSI Ultimate Frisbee match on Killian Court at MIT

PROMYS alum & RSI alum match immediately following the student game

Hotel Information

A block of hotel rooms has been reserved at the Cambridge Courtyard Marriot. A special rate of $149.00 per room will be available while rooms last.  If you wish to reserve a room, please call 866-323-4159 or 800-321-2211 and mention that you are with PROMYS.

Complimentary shuttle service is offered to and from Boston University. 

Directions to Boston University:  Charles River Campus

Campus Map of Boston University:  Charles River Campus

For more information, please contact us at  promys@math.bu.edu