AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

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

Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and their Applications, I
Room L 158, Technological Institute
Organizers:
George Gasper, Northwestern University george@math.northwestern.edu
Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University azayed@math.depaul.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Orthogonal polynomials and coefficients of modular forms.
  Sharon Frechette, College of Holy Cross
  Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Matthew Papanikolas, Texas A&M University
  (1001-11-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A new formula for 9 squares and Humbert's class number formulas.
  Stephen C. Milne*, The Ohio State University
  (1001-11-412)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalized Lambert series identities.
  Song Heng Chan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1001-11-341)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The compact representation of a Leonard pair.
  Paul M Terwilliger*, Math Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1001-33-227)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Orthogonal Polynomials in Two Discrete Variables Related to the Quantum Group $U_q(so(5))$.
  Alexander Rozenblyum*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
  (1001-33-43)

Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and their Applications, II
Room L 158, Technological Institute
Organizers:
George Gasper, Northwestern University george@math.northwestern.edu
Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University azayed@math.depaul.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Ramanujan Continued Fractions and Orthogonal Polynomials.
  Mourad E H Ismail*, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 33218
  Dennis Stanton, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1001-33-315)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A conditionally convergent double series of ordinary Bessel functions in Ramanujan's lost notebook.
  Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1001-33-241)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Generalizations of Certain Well--Known $q$--series Identities Associated to Root Systems.
  Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
  (1001-33-163)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Poisson Kernel for the associated continuos q- Jacobi Polynomials.
  Mizan Rahman, Carleton University
  Tariq M Qazi*, Virginia State University
  (1001-33-151)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Summation, transformation, and expansion formulas for elliptic, modular, and theta hypergeometric series.
  George Gasper*, Northwestern University
  (1001-33-30)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and their Applications, III
Room L 158, Technological Institute
Organizers:
George Gasper, Northwestern University george@math.northwestern.edu
Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University azayed@math.depaul.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Generalization of the Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions.
  Ahmed I Zayed*, DePaul University
  (1001-33-316)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A new method of calculating values of prolate spheroidal wave functions.
  Gilbert G. Walter*, UW-Milwaukee
  Tatiana Soleski, UW-Milwaukee
  (1001-41-72)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A new approach to the orthogonality of the Laguerre and Hermite polynomials.
  Slobodan B. Trickovic*, University of Nis, Serbia
  Miomir S. Stankovic, University of Nis, Serbia
  (1001-33-16)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic analysis of the Krawtchouk polynomials by the WKB method.
  Diego Dominici*, SUNY New Paltz
  (1001-41-28)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Analysis of the Paraxial Wave Equation: An Application of Special Functions.
  Pete A McCoy*, U.S. Naval Academy
  Reza Malek-Madani, U.S. Naval Academy
  (1001-33-153)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
Special Session on Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and their Applications, IV
Room L 158, Technological Institute
Organizers:
George Gasper, Northwestern University george@math.northwestern.edu
Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University azayed@math.depaul.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Second-order superintegrable systems on conformally flat spaces.
  Willard Miller*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1001-33-96)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The coexistence problem for the Heun equation.
  Hans W Volkmer*, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1001-33-217)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A nonlinear differential equation satisfied by modular forms with level 2.
  Heekyoung Hahn*, University of Rochester
  (1001-33-193)

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