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The Eleventh Annual NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J.
Preskenis was held on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Dr. David L.
Abrahamson, Rhode Island College, gave the presentation, "Forgeries, Fraud, Forensics … and
Differential Equations".
Dr. Abrahamson is the 2004 winner of Rhode Island College's Maixner
Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2005 NES/MAA Award for
Distinguished College or University Teaching.
Abstract: In postwar Europe, a mad con man
finds himself on trial – perhaps for his life. Did he collaborate with
the Nazis? How many millions did he scam from unsuspecting marks? The
answers remain shrouded in mystery for decades. The case of the Van
Meegeren art forgeries was finally solved by scientists at Carnegie
Mellon University using the mathematics of radioactive decay.
Dinner Meeting
Program
We thank Sodexho, the Office of the Vice President of Academic
Affairs, Pearson Education, and Cengage
Learning/Brooks-Cole for their support of the 2013 NES/MAA Dinner
Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J. Preskenis.
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