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Battles Lectures
The Frank Battles Lecture Series was established by the Northeastern Section in 1998 to honor Frank Battles' ten years of service as Newsletter Editor for the Section and his many other services to the Section. The Battles Lecture is given annually at the Spring meeting of the Section by an outstanding communicator of Mathematics.
Previous Battles Lectures
| 1998 |
James J. Tattersall, Providence College
Nichomachus rides again |
| 1999 |
Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
Chaos, Fractals, and the Internet |
| 2000 |
Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota - Duluth
The Mathematics of Identification Numbers |
| 2001 |
Thomas Banchoff, Brown University
From Providence To Portugal: Surfaces Beyond The Third Dimension On The Internet |
| 2002 |
Thomas C. Hales, University of Pittsburgh
Computer and Proof in the Context of Discrete Geometry |
| 2003 |
Michael Rosen, Brown University
Number Theory with Polynomials |
| 2004 |
Frank Farris , Santa Clara University
Forbidden Symmetry - Relaxing the Crystallographic Restriction |
| 2005 |
Frank Morgan, Williams College
Double Bubbles and Gauss Space |
| 2006 |
Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross
An equation runs through it: River running on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon - history, current practice, and the role of a mathematician |
| 2007 |
Jim Henle, Smith College
Squaring the Plane |
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