AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:50

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

Saturday October 24, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, I
Room 162, Willard Building
Organizers:
George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Ramanujan and the Probability of Nuclear War.
  William A. Beyer*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  (937-40-17)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Plane partitions.
  David M. Bressoud*, Macalester College
  (937-11-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Family of Partitions with Attached Parts and "N copies of N".
  Jose O Santos*, UNICAMP
  Paulo Mondek, UFMS
  (937-11-71)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Type-B partitions and restricted permutations.
  Rodica Simion*, The George Washington Univ.
  (937-05-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  New Proofs and Generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
  Tina Garrett, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
  Dennis W. Stanton, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
  Mourad E. H. Ismail*, University of South Florida
  (937-33-144)

Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, II
Room 162, Willard Building
Organizers:
George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Lecture hall partitions.
  Kimmo Eriksson*, Royal Institute of Technology
  (937-05-42)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multivariable maj statistics.
  Dennis W Stanton*, University of Minnesota
  Dongsu Kim, KAIST
  (937-05-103)
- 3:30 p.m.
  MacMahon's Master Theorem and rational functions with nonnegative power series coefficients.
  Ira M. Gessel*, Brandeis University
  (937-05-95)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Divisibility of restricted partition functions.
  John H Rickert*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  (937-11-110)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Proving congruences for partition functions.
  Dennis Eichhorn*, University of Illinois
  (937-11-111)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, III
Room 162, Willard Building
Organizers:
George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:00 a.m.
  Properties of $\left( 2,3\right) -$core partitions.
  Lawrence H.T. Sze*, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  (937-05-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Two identities for mock theta function in Ramanujan's lost notebook .
  Youn-Seo Choi*, University of Illinois
  (937-11-69)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Eisenstein series in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
  Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Heng H. Chan, National University of Singapore
  Jaebum Sohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Seung H. Son*, University of Missouri
  (937-11-27)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Permutation Statistics and $q$-Rook Polynomials.
  James B Haglund*, Penn. State. Univ.
  (937-05-78)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, IV
Room 162, Willard Building
Organizers:
George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Zeros of certain modular functions.
  Frank G Garvan*, University of Florida
  (937-11-109)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Hall-Littlewood Polynomials, the Finite General Linear Groups, and the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
  Jason E Fulman*, Dartmouth College
  (937-05-39)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Partitions Defined by Rank Conditions.
  Sylvie Corteel, LRI, Orsay
  Carla D Savage*, North Carolina State University
  Radhika Venkatraman, GTE
  (937-05-77)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Bernoulli Trials and q-Identities.
  Don P. Rawlings*, California Polytechnic State University
  (937-60-70)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Congruences for $m$--ary Partitions: Revisiting the Work of Andrews and others.
  James A Sellers*, Cedarville College
  (937-11-34)

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