Professor Intermont ’89 to Give Talk on Bell Ringing at Annual Sulski Memorial Lecture

WORCESTER, Mass. – Professor Michele Intermont ’89 will deliver the 13th annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture in Mathematics on March 22 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center, Room 519. The lecture, free and open to the public, is titled "The Sound of Algebra."

Intermont, who earned high honors in mathematics from Holy Cross, received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. She taught at John Carroll University and Mesa State College before going to Kalamazoo College, where she is now an associate professor of mathematics. Her research area is algebraic topology.

Intermont’s lecture will introduce bell ringing (English change ringing to be more precise) as an application of algebra. The lecture will present samples of bell ringing and then describe a problem faced by those who compose for bell ringing for which algebra has the solution. The presentation is aimed at a general mathematical audience including undergraduate students.

The lecture will be preceded by a dinner co-sponsored by the department of mathematics and computer science and the Mathematical Association of America. For more information about the dinner, please contact Professor Tom Cecil of the department of mathematics and computer science before March 13 at 508-793-2719 or by e-mail at cecil@mathcs.holycross.edu.

The annual mathematical lecture series is a tribute to Leonard C. Sulski who taught in the mathematics department at Holy Cross from 1965 until his untimely death from leukemia in 1991.