Number/Group Theory Conference, 1966?
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| Photograph taken at a conference in number/group theory around 1966 on the front steps of Page Hall, a precursor to the biennial OSU-Denison Conference. Some of the contemporaneous OSU faculty/graduate students in the picture include Jim Leitzel left of the left railing in the second row. Behind Leitzel to the left is Surinder Sehgal and to the right is Satish Aggarwal. Two rows behind Sehgal and slightly to the right is Henry B. Mann (gray hair), and to the left of Mann, Rajinder Jeet Hans-Gill. To places to the left and slightly forward of Hans-Gill, is Joan Leitzel, with Vishwa Dumir to the back and left of Leitzel. Directly behind Dumir is Wolfgang Kappe, while two place left of Dumir is Frank Demana. To the right of Kappe is Jill Yaqub. To the left and behind Kappe is Johann Leicht. In third or fourth row right of the right railing is Tom Ralley (white coat) In the last two rows, starting from the right: Kevin Brown (smoking), and 4-5 places to his left, standing on the left side of the right window is R. P. Bambah (white coat, face partly obscured). In the center, on the right side of the door is Alan Woods. Slightly left of center in the last row, between the door and column is Hans Zassenhaus, and two places left of Zassenhaus, Archie Addison.
Some notable visitors include Paul Erdos, on the extreme right and front, Louis J. Mordell in the front row right of the right railing, Don Lewis to the right of Zassenhaus (face partly obscured), Harold Stark two rows directly in front of Zassenhaus, Olga Taussky in the second row, second from the right, John Todd to the left and behind Taussky, Jack McLaughlin in the second row right of the right railing, Roger Lyndon two rows behind and slightly left of John Todd, W. E. Deskins front row next to the unidentified nun (possibly one of Zassenhaus' Ph.D. students), and George Kolletis next to Deskins. (Photo donated by Mrs. Zassenhaus.) Click on the picture to get an oversized closeup. |
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