AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

Saturday April 19, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Elementary Number Theory, I
Room 115, Social Science Building
Organizers:
Richard A. Mollin, University of Calgary ramollin@math.ucalgary.ca
Peter J. Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas shiue@nevada.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Prime densities for linear recurrences
  Peter Stevenhagen*, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  (921-11-12)
- 8:55 a.m.
  Bounds for Frequencies of Residues in Second-Order Recurrences Modul $p^r$
  Lawrence E. Somer*, Catholic University of America
  (921-11-38)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Pseudoprimes, Perfect Numbers, and a Problem of Lehmer
  Walter Carlip,
  Eliot T Jacobson*,
  Lawrence Somer,
  (921-11-127)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Stability of Two-Term Recurrence Sequences
  Walter Carlip*, Ohio University
  Eliot Jacobson, Ohio University
  (921-11-128)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Some Remarks on the Distribution of Second Order Linear Recurrences
  John R. Burke*, Gonzaga University
  (921-11-102)

Saturday April 19, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Elementary Number Theory, II
Room 115, Social Science Building
Organizers:
Richard A. Mollin, University of Calgary ramollin@math.ucalgary.ca
Peter J. Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas shiue@nevada.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Diophantine Equations and Ideals
  Richard A. Mollin*,
  (921-11-142)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Ramanujan's Class Invariants
  Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (921-11-150)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Some curves almost possessing rational points
  Andrew Bremner*, Arizona State University
  (921-11-143)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Evaluations of multi-dimensional Euler/Zagier sums: A compendium of results for arbitrary depths
  Jonathan M. Borwein*, CECM, Simon Fraser University
  (921-11-125)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Some conjectures about base 2 pseudoprimes
  John Brillhart*, University of Arizona
  (921-11-39)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Composition of forms, ideals and continued fractions
  Alfred J. van der Poorten*, Macquarie University, Australia
  (921-11-14)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Explicit Primality Criteria for $(p-1)p^n-1$
  Hugh C. Williams*, University of Manitoba
  (921-11-48)
- 5:55 p.m.
  Imaginary Octic Fields of type (2,2,2) with small class number
  Charles John Parry*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  (921-11-180)

Sunday April 20, 1997, 8:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Elementary Number Theory, III
Room 115, Social Science Building
Organizers:
Richard A. Mollin, University of Calgary ramollin@math.ucalgary.ca
Peter J. Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas shiue@nevada.edu
- 8:50 a.m.
  On an Optimality Property of Ramanujan Sums.
  Gennady Bachman*, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
  (921-11-17)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Some identities connecting partition functions to other number theoretic functions
  Neville Robbins*, San Francisco State University
  (921-11-64)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Cyclic Indicator and Partition Functions
  Leetsch C. Hsu,
  Peter J.S. Shiue*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  (921-11-77)
- 10:05 a.m.
  Periods of Sequences Generated by Two Special Mappings
  Wun-Seng Chou*, Academia Sinica
  Peter J.-S. Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  (921-11-139)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

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