80th Birthday
Memories of the Zanesville Ohio University Conference in Honor of Carl Faith’s 80th and Barbara Osofsky’s 70th Birthday, June 15-17, 2007
Invited Speakers:
Victor P. Camillo (U. Iowa), AlbertoFacchini (U. Padova, Italy), Kent R. Fuller (U. Iowa), José-Luis Gomez-Pardo (U. de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Charudatta Hajarnavis (U. Warwick, UK), Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (U. Cal.at Santa Barbara,), T. Y.Lam (U. Cal. at Berkeley), Patrick F. Smith (U.Glasgow,UK), Agata Smoktunowicz (U. Edinburgh, Scotland), JanTrlifaj (Charles U., Czech Republic), Robert Wisbauer (U. of Dusseldorf, Germany.) Other speakers were: George Bergman (U.Cal., Berkeley), S. K. Jain (Ohio U. at Athens), Roger & Sylvia Wiegand (U. of Nebraska),PeterVamos (Exeter U, England) & Japheth Wood (Bard College):
Speakers at the Banquet:
Dean James Fonseca (Ohio U.at Zanesville), official welcome, S. K. Jain about Barbara’s & my contributions to math, and to him personally, Victor Camillo extolled my zaniness at Rutgers U. back in 1966-1970. Patrick Smithrecalled a telling remark I made to him at the Exeter conference in 1983 organized by Peter Vamos, “Patrick, you are more like our student than Alfred Goldie (his Ph.D. adviser!) is!” Then Patrick roasted Barbara by having her star in a bizarre movie scenario dressed in black leather & riding a motor cycle on mountain curves, and Peter Vamos roasted me for a series of letters to him addressed variously as Peter, Paul, and Freddy! (The fact that it was true only increased its hilarity!) I didn’t have the wit to tell them that I called a freshman student at Penn State U. back in 1958 by the wrong name—he didn’t correct me because hedisliked his given name, Beauregard. So now everybody calls him Dick!
- List of Speakers
- My Mathematical Lineage
- Snapshots of Some Mathematical Friends and Places in Part II of Rings and Things updated 1/6/09
- Agata’s Talk Outline and Photographs of Mathematicians in Power Point
- Photographs of Mathematicians in Agata’s Talk Sans Text.ppt
Testimonial Excerpts and Reminisces
Zaneville Testimonial Excerpts and Reminisces
- Carl Faith: Greetings and Thanks
- Surender Jain–Carl and Barbara
- Surender Jain
- Barbara Langer and Abraham Ososky
- Patrick F. Smith–A New Career For Barbara Osofsky
- Patrick Smith.
- Vic Camillo–Testimony for Carl
- Vic Camillo
- John Cozzens
- Boyle’s Theorem, Conjecture, and Sigma-Injective Modules
- Pere Menal
- Alberto Facchini
- Dolors Herbera and Ahmad Shamsuddin
- José Luis Gómez Pardo
- Agata Smoktunowicz
- Carl Faith and Kevin McCrimmon on Nathan Jacobson
- Peter Pappas–Meeting Carl Faith Twice in My Life
- George Bergman
- Lia Vas–Story of my name
- Jan Trlifaj-The Story of My Name & Buying Carl’s Algebra
- Kaplansky and Rings & Things
- John Dauns–The Story of My Name
- Roger Wiegand
- Sylvia Wiegand
- Sergio Roberto Lopez-Permouth
- Dinh Van Huynh
- Japheth Meets the Kaschs in Korea
- Peter Vamos
- Paul Moritz Cohn
- Elbert and Carole Walker
- Galois Theory & Module Theory
- Johns Rings