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.