AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, April 17, 2006 00:33:27

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

Saturday April 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, I
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Weighted Trigonometric Sums over a Half-Period.
  O-Yeat Chan*, University of Illinois
  (1016-11-95)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Two Entries on Bilateral Hypergeometric Series in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
  Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1016-33-63)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Modular Equations and Algebraic Hypergeometric Transformations.
  Robert S. Maier*, University of Arizona
  (1016-11-297)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Ramanujan and False Theta Series.
  George E. Andrews*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (1016-33-71)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An L-function extension of Ramanujan's formula for the Riemann zeta function with an entire parameter: Preliminary Report.
  David M. Bradley*, University of Maine
  Katherine J. Merrill, University of Maine
  (1016-33-195)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Orthogonal polynomials in two discrete variables related to the algebra $U_q(so(6))$.
  Alexander Rozenblyum*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
  (1016-33-138)

Saturday April 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, II
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Second order superintegrable systems in two and three dimensions.
  Willard Miller*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1016-33-123)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Approximation Operators, Exponential, and Free Exponential Families.
  W\llodzimierz Bryc, University of Cincinnati
  Mourad E. H. Ismail*, University of Central Florida
  (1016-33-251)
- 4:00 p.m.
  WKB and Turning point Theory for Second order difference equations: External Fields and Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials.
  J Geronimo*, Georgia Tech.
  (1016-43-240)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic analysis of the generalized Hermite polynomials by the ray method.
  Diego Dominici*, State University of New York at New Paltz
  (1016-41-180)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, III
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A q-analogue of Wigner's 9-j symbols.
  Mizan Rahman*, Carleton University
  (1016-33-330)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Umemora polynomials associated to Painleve III .
  Tewodros Amdeberhan*, Princeton Univ./Tulane Univ.
  Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University
  (1016-34-20)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Fractional group operators and the classical special functions.
  Loyal Durand*, Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1016-33-105)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dilogarithms and four-body atomic Coulomb interaction integrals for fully correlated exponential wavefunctions.
  Frank E Harris*, Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida
  (1016-33-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Differentiation evens out zero spacing.
  David W. Farmer*, American Institute of Mathematics
  (1016-30-72)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Using integrals of squares of real-valued functions to prove that certain entire functions have only real zeros.
  George Gasper*, Northwestern University,
  (1016-33-239)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Matrix valued orthogonal polynomials and differential equations.
  Mirta Castro, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
  F. Alberto Grunbaum*, math dept UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
  (1016-33-118)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, IV
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic of the partition function.
  Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
  (1016-11-299)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Univalency of Hypergeometric Functions.
  Roger W Barnard*, Texas Tech University
  Samy Ponnusamy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  (1016-30-67)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Special functions and the Mellin transforms of Laguerre and Hermite functions.
  Mark W Coffey*, Colorado School of Mines
  (1016-33-82)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Instability intervals of the Ince and Hill equations.
  Hans W Volkmer*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1016-33-93)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A classs of probability distribution functions relevant to turbulence.
  Bruce R. Fabijonas*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
  Mogens V. Melander, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
  (1016-33-148)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Critical behavior of Gaussian random matrices with external source.
  Pavel Bleher*, IUPUI
  (1016-33-335)

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