SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF
OLGA TAUSSKY-TODD
APRIL 13, 1996

OLGA TAUSSKY-TODD
(1906-1995)

Schedule of Events

• 9:20 - 9:30
  • Opening remarks
• 9:30 - 10:20
  • Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
    Quaternions and octonions in Number Theory
• Coffee Break
• 10:50 - 11:40
  • Helene Shapiro (Swarthmore College)
    Notes from Math 223: Olga's Matrix Theory Course, 1976-77
• 11:50 - 12:40
  • Philip Hanlon (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
    To the Lattimer-MacDuffee Theorem and beyond!
• Lunch break
• 2:30 - 3:20
  • Kenneth Ribet (University of California, Berkeley)
    On the equation a^p + b^p = 2^t c^p
• Tea break
• 4:00 - 4:50
  • Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California)
    Some matrix problems related to Olga Taussky's work
    

All talks will be in Room 151 Sloan.

Reception and dinner at the Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel
1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue, Pasadena
Promenade Room: 6:00 - 7:00 hosted reception; 7:00 - 9:00 dinner

For information about dinner reservations, lodging, airport shuttle reservations,
please contact:
Marge D'Elia
Department of Mathematics 253-37
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone: (626) 395-4334
Fax: (626) 585-1728
e-mail: delia@cco.caltech.edu

Other special events:

• Southern California Analysis and PDE Seminar
  

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