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1997 Spring Western Sectional Meeting
Corvallis, OR, April 19-20, 1997
Meeting #921

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

Special Session on Algebraic and Elementary Number Theory

  • 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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