AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

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

Friday March 12, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Erd\H os Legacy and Connections to Florida, I
Room 101, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Krishnaswami Alladi, University of Florida alladi@math.ufl.edu
Jean Larson, University of Florida jal@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Erdos at the University of Florida.
  Jean A. Larson*, University of Florida
  (940-01-376)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Counting lattice points by means of the residue theorem.
  Matthias Beck*, Temple University
  (940-05-24)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A simple proof of Riemann's function equation for zeta(s).
  Sinai Robins*, Temple University
  (940-05-309)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Erdos's elementary method for the asymptotics of partitions.
  Melvyn B. Nathanson*, Lehman College (CUNY)
  (940-11-374)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stable sets.
  A J Hildebrand*, University of Illinois
  (940-11-253)

Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Erd\H os Legacy and Connections to Florida, II
Room 101, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Krishnaswami Alladi, University of Florida alladi@math.ufl.edu
Jean Larson, University of Florida jal@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Induced Subgraphs With Given Numbers of Edges.
  Paul Erd\H{o}s,
  Zolt\'{a}n F\"{u}redi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Bruce Rothschild*, University of California, Los Angeles
  Vera S\'{o}s, Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  (940-05-206)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Database Security and Concentrating Sums of Vectors.
  Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
  (940-05-297)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Countable Partition Ordinals.
  Rene J Schipperus*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (940-04-256)
- 4:00 p.m.
  What About Polarized Partition Relations?
  Albin L. Jones*, Dartmouth College
  (940-04-327)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Partition relations for Successor Cardinals.
  Matthew D Foreman*, UC Irvine
  (940-05-306)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Erd\H os Legacy and Connections to Florida, III
Room 101, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Krishnaswami Alladi, University of Florida alladi@math.ufl.edu
Jean Larson, University of Florida jal@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Two contradictory conjectures on Carmichael numbers.
  Andrew Granville, Math.Dept., U. Georgia
  Carl Pomerance*, Math.Dept., U. Georgia
  (940-11-320)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Lasker's game.
  David A. Drake*, University of Florida
  (940-05-344)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Two problems of Erdos concerning character sums.
  Peter D.T.A. Elliott*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (940-11-82)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Large values of the number of factorization of an integer into primes.
  Jean-Louis Nicolas*, Universit\'e Claude-Bernard (Lyon I)
  (940-11-299)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Multiplicative Functions and Small Divisors.
  Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
  (940-11-375)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Erd\H os Legacy and Connections to Florida, IV
Room 101, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Krishnaswami Alladi, University of Florida alladi@math.ufl.edu
Jean Larson, University of Florida jal@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Some Progress on Erdos Problems.
  Andras Hajnal*, Rutgers University
  (940-04-27)
- 3:00 p.m.
  An Amusing Combinatorial Problem.
  Carl Darby*, UNLV
  (940-04-318)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Paul Erd\H{o}s and Discrepancy Theory.
  Vera T. S\'os*, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  (940-11-296)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Paul Erdos and the Southeastern Conferences on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing.
  Frederick Hoffman*, Florida Atlantic University
  (940-05-338)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Partitions and Selections in planar geometry.
  R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
  (940-04-223)

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