2006 OUSMI
Distinguished Colloquium Speaker
Carl Pomerance
Professor Pomerance
is known world-wide for his work in number theory.
He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 and joined the
University of Georgia. In 1984, he became Research Professor at the University
of Gerogia, and he retired from the university as Research Professor
Emeritus in 1999. He then joined Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies where he worked
until 2003. Since 2003, he is at Dartmouth College. Professor Pomerance has
won many awards including including the Chauvenet Prize in 1985, MAA's
Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimp Award Distinguished University Teaching Award
in 1997, and the AMS's Conant Prize in 2001. He became a Fellow of American
Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004.
Professor Pomerance has over 150 publications and he
is the inventor of the famous quadratic seive factorization method.