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All lectures to be held in Stone B50

On display will be all 20 years of PROMYS T-shirts, Photo albums, and PROMYS yearbooks.

Fermat T-shirts on sale

Friday, July 24:

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 on the Charles River  (PROMYS will provide food)

Frisbee matches with the students

Puzzles and games on the Charles

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)

2:30 – 3:20      Tom Brennan (Northwestern University, Law and Finance): 

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

3:40 – 4:20      David Jao (University of Waterloo, Mathematics): 

“The Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography”

6:00 – 7:00      Jazz concert

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

7:30 – 10:00    20^th Anniversary Banquet ($30 per guest)

Sunday, July 26:

8:30 – 10:00    Morning activities may include: a Mystery Hunt, Ultimate Frisbee, and/or a pick-up

game of basketball

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.