Department Members Who Now Occupy the New Math Center

Robert Z. Norman, Associate Professor, tries out an upperlevel walkway. A Michigan Ph.D., he came to Dartmouth in1956 and is a specialist in graph theory and combinatorics.

Professor Fred W. Perkins has taught mathematics at Dartmouth since 1927. A Harvard Ph.D., he specializes in analysis,and is shown here in an advanced calculus course designedmainly for students in the physical sciences and engineering.

Three research instructors on the staff, leaving theold math headquarters in Dartmouth Hall, are(l to r) Robert W. Ritchie, Eugene Albert, andDonald R. Ostberg, newly added this fall.

Associate Professor J. Laurie Snell, Ph.D. Illinois, discussing a problem in probability theory related to electrical engineering. He is one of the conference panelists.

Associate Professor Hazleton Mirkil, alsoa conference panelist, does his major research in functional analysis. He tookhis Ph.D. degree at Chicago.

As visiting member of the staff this yearthe Department has Assistant ProfessorJohn W. Lamperti of Stanford.

Three Assistant Professors, shown in the faculty lounge of the new Center, are(l to r) Donald L. Kreider, Ph.D., logician; and Robert G. Kuller, Ph.D., andRichard E. Williamson, Ph.D., both of whom are specialists in analysis.

Bancroft H. Brown, B. P. Cheney Professor of Mathematics and the seniormember of the Department, will enjoyhis new quarters for less than a year. Heretires next June after teaching at Dartmouth for 40 years. A great teacher witha lively wit, he has imparted mathematical knowledge to thousands of Dartmouthmen since he came to Hanover in 1922.

Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kurtz aPrinceton Ph.D. and a specialist in statistics, directs the Department's work inhigh-speed digital computing.