AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:23

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Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday November 17, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Related Topics, I
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Georgia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Theresa P. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- 8:30 a.m.
  Explicit formulas for degenerate Bernoulli numbers.
  Fredric T. Howard*, Wake Forest University
  (906-11-16)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Fibonacci triangle modulo $p$.
  Brad L. Wilson*, State University of New York, College at Brockport
  (906-11-54)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rigorous discrete logarithm algorithms.
  Carl Pomerance*, University of Georgia
  (906-11-159)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Directed graphs defined by arithmetic $(mod $n$)$.
  Ezra A. Brown*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
  (906-11-53)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Dispelling myths about mathematics: A look at some of Leonard Eugene Dickson's number-theoretic work.
  Della Dumbaugh Fenster*, University of Richmond
  (906-01-107)

Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Related Topics, II
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Georgia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Theresa P. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- 2:15 p.m.
  On Dickson polynomials, R\'edei functions, and formal group laws.
  Paul T. Young*, University of Charleston
  (906-11-141)
- 2:45 p.m.
  An explicit upper bound of the Riemann zeta function in the critical strip.
  Yuanyou Cheng*, University of Georgia
  (906-11-192)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Approximations to $\pi$ via modular equations for the Dedekind $\eta$-function.
  Frank G. Garvan*, University of Florida
  (906-11-160)
- 3:45 p.m.
  The average witness is $2$.
  Ronald Joseph Burthe, Jr.*, University of Georgia
  (906-11-20)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Some rook polynomials with real roots related to hypergeometric series.
  James B. Haglund*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (906-11-118)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Computations of class numbers of quadratic fields.
  Anitha Srinivasan*, University of Georgia
  (906-11-205)

Saturday November 18, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Related Topics, III
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Georgia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Theresa P. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- 8:00 a.m.
  A permutation associated with $GF(2^n)$.
  Theresa Phillips Vaughan*, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  (906-05-52)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generating permutations using the transpositions $\{ (1,n), (2,n),\ldots , (n-1,n)\}$.
  Frederick J. Portier*, Mount Saint Mary's College
  (906-05-135)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Permutation polynomials over a finite field satisfying a difference equation. {\rm II}.
  Robert M. McConnel*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (906-12-138)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The radical factors of $f(x)-f(y)$ over finite fields.
  Maria T. Acosta, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Campus
  Javier Gomez-Calderon*, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Campus
  (906-11-136)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the divisibility of certain partition functions by small powers of $2$.
  Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
  (906-11-13)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Divisibility of certain partition functions by powers of primes.
  Ken Ono*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (906-05-51)

Saturday November 18, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Related Topics, IV
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Georgia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Theresa P. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- 2:15 p.m.
  Some applications of numerical sieving devices.
  Hugh C. Williams*, University of Manitoba
  (906-11-194)
- 2:45 p.m.
  On an extension of a theorem of Ljunggren.
  Michael A. Filaseta*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  Charles A. Nicol, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  Junior G. Solan, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  (906-12-124)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Nonvanishing of normalized convolutions of cusp forms.
  Xian-Jin Li*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (906-11-24)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Fermat quotients for function fields.
  James J. Sauerberg*, Union College
  Linghsueh Shu, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (906-11-50)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Uniformly approximable numbers and the uniform approximation spectrum.
  Edward B. Burger*, Williams College
  (906-11-82)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Waring's problem in number fields.
  Morley A. Davidson*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (906-11-164)

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