The Centennial Celebration

Program of Events

Thursday, May 14, 1998
6:00pm Registration and Reception (hors d'oeuvres at 7:00 pm) Sheldon Art Gallery
Friday, May 15, 1998
8:00–11:00 Registration Burnett 107
8:30 Welcoming Remarks
UNL Chancellor James Moeser
Arts and Sciences Dean Brian Foster
Department Chair Jim Lewis
Burnett 115
9:00 Plenary Address
Mel Thornton, (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Mathematics Education, Innovation and Outreach:
Where we've been and where we're going
Burnett 115
10:00 Break, (Coffee and Snacks) Burnett 107
10:30 Special Sessions
Combinatorics I
Difference and Differential Equations I
Feynman and Wiener Integrals I
Mathematics Education I
Mathematics Outside Academia I
Operator Algebras I
Recreational and General Interest Mathematics I
Ring Theory and Algebraic Geometry I
Semigroup Theory I

Burnett 103
Burnett 124
Burnett 204
Burnett 119
Burnett 118
Burnett 121
Burnett 102
Burnett 125
Burnett 117
12:30pm Lunch
2:00 Plenary Address
Mark Teply, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Algebra at Nebraska
Burnett 115
3:00 Break, (Coffee and Snacks) Burnett 107
3:30 Special Sessions
Combinatorics II
Difference and Differential Equations II
Feynman and Wiener Integrals II
Mathematics Education II
Mathematics Outside Academia II
Operator Algebras II
Recreational and General Interest Mathematics II
Ring Theory and Algebraic Geometry II
Semigroup Theory II
Statistics I

Burnett 103
Burnett 124
Burnett 204
Burnett 119
Burnett 118
Burnett 121
Burnett 102
Burnett 125
Burnett 117
3:30 Campus Tour Meet at Burnett 106
6:00 Banquet
6:00 Reception
6:45 Group Photograph
7:00 Dinner Served
Banquet Speaker:
Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
A Century of Mathematics and Statistics at Nebraska
Cornhusker Hotel
Saturday, May 16, 1998
8:00–11:00 Registration Burnett 107
9:00 Plenary Address
Frank Gilfeather, (University of New Mexico)
Mathematics, Universities, and the Federal Government:
Issues facing the profession in the 21st Century
Burnett 115
10:00 Break, (Coffee and Snacks) Burnett 107
10:30 Special Sessions
Difference and Differential Equations III
Feynman and Wiener Integrals III
Mathematics Education III
Mathematics Outside Academia III
Operator Algebras III
Recreational and General Interest Mathematics III
Ring Theory and Algebraic Geometry III
Semigroup Theory III
Statistics II

Burnett 124
Burnett 204
Burnett 119
Burnett 118
Burnett 121
Burnett 102
Burnett 125
Burnett 126
Burnett 120
10:30 Tour of Lincoln CANCELLED
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Plenary Address
Johnny Henderson, (Auburn University)
Differential Equations at Nebraska
Burnett 115
3:00 Break, (Coffee and Snacks) Burnett 107
3:30 Special Sessions
Difference and Differential Equations IV
Feynman and Wiener Integrals IV
Mathematics Education IV
Ring Theory and Algebraic Geometry IV
Semigroup Theory IV

Burnett 124
Burnett 204
Burnett 119
Burnett 125
Burnett 126
3:30 Panel Discussions
Graduate Life in the Department in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
How I Used my Math/Stat Bachelors Degree

Burnett 115
Burnett 220