Mathematical Sciences Department NEWS Release

UNCG MATH PROFESSOR WILL SPEAK
TO SPECIAL SESSION IN COLUMBIA

GREENSBORO — Dr. Theresa Vaughan, associate professor of mathematical sciences at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been invited to address the Special Session in Analytic Number Theory at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Columbia, S.C., March 16.

The conference concerns the topic of union-closed families of sets, with particular applications to a conjecture associated with Hungarian mathematician Peter Frankl. This conjecture has remained unsolved for more than 30 years. Vaughan will present a heuristic numerical approach to the problem.

A faculty member since 1973, Vaughan has been the vice president of the Fibonnaci Society and a council member of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications. She instituted the Southeastern Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON), a conference for number theorists that now meets annually at different universities in the southeast.
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