The Conference on Algebra at the 1941 Summer Meeting of the Society in Chicago was held in three sessions. The first dealt with abstract algebra, especially with lattice theory, and the lectures were given by Professors John von Neumann and Garrett Birkhoff. The session was preceded by the first Colloquium Lecture of Professor Oystein Ore on the allied topic of Mathematical Relations and Struct...

s of invited talks Talks will take place in lecture rooms 1 and 2 of the Boyd Orr Building.

the beautiful setting of the Old Library building on the historical campus of the University of Warsaw. The first day was dedicated to the Calco Early Ideas workshop, devoted to presentation of work in progress, with a particular emphasis on talks by PhD students and young researchers. This workshop is the follower of Calco-jnr. The other workshop affiliated with Calco, Calco-Tools, is dedicate...

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BACKGROUND Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are often used in exams of medical education and need careful quality management for example by the application of review committees. This study investigates whether groups communicating virtually by email are similar to face-to-face groups concerning their review process performance and whether a facilitator has positive effects. METHODS 16 small g...

Joel B. Greenhouse Carnegie Mellon University The following two papers are written versions of talks given by my father, Samuel W. Greenhouse. The first paper in the series, entitled On Psychiatry, Epidemiology, and Statistics: A View from the 1950’s and 60’s, was presented in 1999 at the Harvard School of Public Health. The second paper, The Growth and Future of Biostatistics (A View from the ...

Abstract Sue Bowler talks to the people in charge of first new RAS journal almost a century, Techniques and Instruments, hears that it is place discuss advances complex methods tools are changing way scientists work.