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SPRING 2007
ANDREWS LECTURES

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SIX LECTURES BY
PROFESSOR GEORGE ANDREWS

Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
The Pennsylvania State University
and
Distinguished Visiting Professor
University of Florida Mathematics Department

Professor George Andrews of The Pennsylvania State University will be visiting the mathematics department from January 25 until the end of March, 2007. Professor Andrews will give six lectures, of which one will be a Colloquium and five will be in the Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminars. The lecture schedule, the titles and abstracts are given below.

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Tuesday, February 6, 12:50 pm
NUMBER THEORY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR, LIT 368
Partitions, Durfee Symbols, and the Atkin-Garvan Moments of Ranks
- Lecture 1: History
Tuesday, February 13, 1:55 pm
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR, Math Dept Atrium (LIT 339)
Partitions, Durfee Symbols, and the Atkin-Garvan Moments of Ranks
- Lecture 2: Durfee symbols
Monday, February 19, 4:05 pm
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, Math Dept Atrium (LIT 339)
Multipartition identities and the Tri-Pentagonal Number Theorem
Tuesday, February 20, 1:55 pm
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR, Math Dept Atrium (LIT 339)
Partitions, Durfee Symbols, and the Atkin-Garvan Moments of Ranks
- Lecture 3: Generating functions
Tuesday, February 27, 1:55pm
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR, Math Dept Atrium (LIT 339)
Partitions, Durfee Symbols, and the Atkin-Garvan Moments of Ranks
- Lecture 4: Congruences and self-conjugate Durfee symbols
Tuesday, March 6, 12:50 pm
NUMBER THEORY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR, LIT 368
Partitions, Durfee Symbols, and the Atkin-Garvan Moments of Ranks
- Lecture 5: Partitions with mostly consecutive integer parts and odd Durfee symbols

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: George Andrews is the world's premier authority in the theory of partitions and the work of the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the UF Math Dept every year in the Spring term. He was a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from UF in 2002.


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