AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modular Identities and Q-Series in Number Theory, I
Room 8B, TUCC
Organizers:
Marvin I. Knopp, Temple University
Boris Datskovsky, Temple University bdats@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Distribution of parity of the partition function on arithmetic progressions.
  Scott D. Ahlgren*, Penn State University
  (933-11-73)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Septic theta function identities in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook .
  Seung H Son*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (933-11-42)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Modular equations of degree 5 found in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook .
  Soon-Yi Kang*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (933-11-46)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Incomplete Elliptic Integrals in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
  Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (933-11-81)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rational Landen transformations: the sixth degree case.
  Victor H. Moll*, Tulane University
  George Boros, Tulane University
  (933-33-250)

Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Modular Identities and Q-Series in Number Theory, II
Room 8B, TUCC
Organizers:
Marvin I. Knopp, Temple University
Boris Datskovsky, Temple University bdats@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Universal deformation rings of representations of finite groups.
  Frauke M. Bleher, Univ. of Penn.
  Ted C. Chinburg*, Univ. of Penn.
  (933-11-120)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Hyperbolic Geometry of the Crisp-Moran Conjecture.
  Thomas A. Schmidt, Oregon State University
  Mark Sheingorn*, CUNY - Baruch College and Graduate Center
  (933-11-54)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Divisibility of class numbers and orders of Tate-Shafarevich groups.
  Ken Ono*, Penn State University
  (933-11-40)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Character sums and automorphic forms.
  Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Pennsylvania State University
  (933-11-78)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Nonanalytic Automorphic Integrals.
  Paul C Pasles*, Saint Joseph's University
  (933-11-139)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Log-Ploynomial Period Functions for Hecke Groups.
  Abdulkadir Hassen*, Rowan University
  (933-11-60)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modular Identities and Q-Series in Number Theory, I
Room 8B, TUCC
Organizers:
Marvin I. Knopp, Temple University
Boris Datskovsky, Temple University bdats@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On a partition theorem of G\"ollnitz and quartic transformations.
  Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
  (933-11-24)
- 9:00 a.m.
  WZ-forms, q-series accelerations, irrationality proofs.
  Tewodros Amdeberhan*, DeVry Institute of Technology
  Doron Zeilberger, Temple University
  (933-11-43)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Extending Theorems of Gollnitz, A New Family of Partition Identities.
  Jose Plinio O Santos*, UNICAMP, CAMPINAS-BRASIL
  Paulo Mondek, UFMS-Campo Grande - Brasil
  (933-11-45)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some $q$--expansions of modular forms.
  David W Farmer*, Bucknell University
  (933-11-159)
- 10:30 a.m.
  New Algorithms in Public-Key Cryptography.
  Daniel B Lieman*, University of Missouri
  (933-11-217)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Modular Identities and Q-Series in Number Theory, IV
Room 8B, TUCC
Organizers:
Marvin I. Knopp, Temple University
Boris Datskovsky, Temple University bdats@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Rereading L. J. Rogers.
  Richard A Askey*, Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
  (933-33-21)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some octahedral congruences for $\eta$-products.
  Basil Gordon*, UCLA
  (933-11-248)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On $p$-adic families of Jacobi forms.
  Pavel I Guerzhoy*, Temple University
  (933-11-52)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Function theoretic derivations of Ramanujan partition identities.
  Hershel M. Farkas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Irwin Kra*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  (933-30-68)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The symmetric square $L$-function and it's derivative at 1.
  Brian Conrey*, American Institute of Mathematics and Oklahoma State University
  (933-11-86)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Density theorems related to the non-vanishing of $L$-series of modular forms.
  Kevin L James*, Penn. State University
  (933-11-76)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Weyl's Law with Error Estimate for Sl(3,Z) .
  Sultan Catto, Baruch College, CUNY
  Jonathan M. Huntley, Baruch College, CUNY
  Nam-Jong Moh, Graduate Center, CUNY
  David E. Tepper*, Baruch College, CUNY
  (933-11-16)

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