Conference in honor of Professor Raymond O. Wells, Jr.
At Jacobs University Bremen
December 1-2, 2005
Organizers: Ivan Penkov, Dierk Schleicher, Michael Stoll
Raymond O. Wells, Professor of Mathematics at Rice University for
many years, is one of the founding fathers of International University
Bremen. He served as Jacobs's first Vice President for External Affairs
and as Professor of Mathematics. On June 30, 2005, he retired from
his position as Vice President, just after his 65th birthday, and was
appointed Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He continues
to serve on the board of the IUB Foundation of America.
This conference honors Ronny's long career as a mathematician,
featuring a small but very distinguished selection of friends who
shared mathematics with Ronny along his way.
Thursday, December 1
| 10:00-10:15 |
Opening, Dr. Fritz Schaumann, President of IUB
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| 10:15-11:15 |
Roger Penrose, University of Oxford
"Quantum Twistor Space"
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| 11:45-12:45 |
Ivan Penkov, International University Bremen
Title TBA
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Lunch
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| 15:15-16:15 |
C. Sidney Burrus, Rice University
"Factoring High Degree Polynomials for Signal Processing"
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Reception at the home of Ronny and Rena Wells
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Friday, December 2
| 10:00-11:00 |
Friedrich Hirzebruch, Max Planck Institute for
Mathematics, Bonn
"The projective tangent bundles of a complex three-fold"
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| 11:30-12:30 |
Oswald Riemenschneider, University of Hamburg
"On deformation-finite surface singularities"
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Lunch
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| 15:00-16:00 |
Howard Resnikoff
Title TBA
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Sponsors
The event is made possible by Mrs. Barbara Janson, Mr. Art
Hilsinger, and an anonymous donor.
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