AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Special Functions, I
Room B321, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison askey@math.wisc.edu
Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin-Madison terwilli@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  New Formulas for Ramanujan's Tau Function and the Leech Lattice.
  Stephen C Milne*, The Ohio State University
  (980-11-305)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Special Functions Related to Representations of High Dimension Lie Groups.
  Alexander Rozenblyum*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
  (980-33-45)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fifth Order Mock Theta Functions.
  Boon P Yeap*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (980-11-308)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A proof of Askey-Wilson relations for Leonard pairs.
  Raimundas Vidunas*, University of Antwerp
  (980-33-266)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The pseudo cosine sequences of a distance-regular graph.
  A A Pascasio*, De La Salle University
  Paul M Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin
  (980-05-311)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Special Functions, II
Room B321, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison askey@math.wisc.edu
Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin-Madison terwilli@math.wisc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  On the Generalized Rogers--Ramanujan Continued Fraction.
  Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Ae Ja Yee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (980-33-161)
- 2:30 p.m.
  An indeterminate moment problem involving the Al-Salam--Chihara polynomials.
  Jacob Stordal Christiansen*, University of Copenhagen
  Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of South Florida
  (980-33-209)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Zeta Functions of Graphs: When Number Theory Meets Graph Theory.
  Audrey A. Terras*, U.C.S.D.
  (980-11-258)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Eigenvalue and Dual Eigenvalue Sequences for Three Mutually Adjacent Leonard Pairs.
  Brian L Hartwig*, University of Wisconsin
  (980-05-300)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A transformation on the space of rational functions.
  Victor H Moll*, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University
  (980-33-150)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Ramanujan's Continued Fraction for $(q^2;q^3)_{\infty}/(q;q^3)_{\infty}$.
  George E Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
  Bruce C Berndt, University of Illinois
  Jaebum Sohn*, Ohio State University
  Ae Ja Yee, University of Illinois
  Alexandru Zaharescu, University of Illinois
  (980-33-139)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Special Functions, III
Room B321, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison askey@math.wisc.edu
Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin-Madison terwilli@math.wisc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sign Variations on the Macdonald Identities.
  David M Bressoud*, Macalester College
  (980-05-53)
- 9:00 a.m.
  New Ramanujan-Kolberg Type Partition Identities.
  Heekyoung Hahn*, UIUC
  Heng Huat Chan, National University of Singapore
  Richard P Lewis, University of Sussex
  Siew Lian Tan, Singapore
  (980-11-175)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Asymptotics of Krawtchouk polynomials and the covering radius of linear codes.
  A. Ashikhmin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  A. Barg*, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  (980-94-260)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Determinants of Period Matrices and Applications to Multidimensional Beta Integrals.
  Qifu Zheng*, The College of New Jersey
  (980-33-129)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some derivative identities and applications.
  Warren P Johnson*, Bates College
  (980-05-100)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Generalized Frobenius partitions with $k$ colors and Generalized Frobenius partitions with $k$ repetitions.
  Ae Ja Yee*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (980-05-281)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Special Functions, IV
Room B321, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison askey@math.wisc.edu
Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin-Madison terwilli@math.wisc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sieved q-binomial coefficients.
  Dennis Stanton*, University of Minnesota
  Dennis White, University of Minnesota
  (980-05-223)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quantum supergroup and q-polynomials.
  Yi Ming Zou*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (980-22-71)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Pseudo primitive idempotents and almost 2-homogeneous bipartite distance-regular graphs.
  Michael S Lang*, University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse
  (980-05-298)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Elliptic hypergeometric series on root systems.
  Hjalmar Rosengren*, Chalmers University
  (980-33-268)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Askey-Wilson type functions, with bound states.
  Luc N. Haine*, University of Louvain
  Plamen I. Iliev, University of California at Berkeley
  (980-33-115)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The $q$-Difference Operator and the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
  George E. Andrews*, Penn State University
  (980-05-178)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org