AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 4, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, I
Room 124, Chemistry Building
Organizers:
Mizanur Rahman, Carleton University mrahman@math.carleton.ca
Diego Dominici, State University of New York New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  An explicit polynomial form of a q-analogue of the 9-j symbols.
  Mizan Rahman*, Carleton University
  (1041-33-40)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tridiagonal pairs of $q$-Racah type.
  Paul M Terwilliger*, Math Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Tatsuro Ito, Math Department, Kanazawa University
  (1041-33-32)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A nonterminating $q$-Dougall summation theorem for hypergeometric series in $U(n)$.
  Stephen C Milne*, The Ohio State University
  Sheldon L Degenhardt, Baltimore, Maryland
  (1041-33-171)

Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, II
Room 124, Chemistry Building
Organizers:
Mizanur Rahman, Carleton University mrahman@math.carleton.ca
Diego Dominici, State University of New York New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Pade Appropximation and the Riemann Zeta Function.
  Peter Borwein*, Simon Fraser University
  (1041-11-166)
- 3:30 p.m.
  An efficient algorithm for the Hurwitz zeta and related functions.
  Mark W Coffey*, Colorado School of Mines
  (1041-33-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic analysis of Hermite-type polynomials.
  Diego Dominici*, Technische Universität Berlin
  (1041-33-261)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Matrix valued orthogonal polynomials and inverse problems for networks.
  F. Alberto Grunbaum*, Math Dept UC Berkeley
  (1041-60-184)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, III
Room 124, Chemistry Building
Organizers:
Mizanur Rahman, Carleton University mrahman@math.carleton.ca
Diego Dominici, State University of New York New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Families of quadratic and cubic hypergeometric transformations.
  Robert S. Maier*, University of Arizona
  (1041-33-286)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hypergeometric analogues of the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean.
  Roger W Barnard*, Texas Tech University
  (1041-33-95)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Orthogonal polynomials and non-linear difference equations.
  Sarah Jane Johnston*, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Mourad E H Ismail, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
  (1041-33-224)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constrained Spline Smoothing and Applications.
  Kirill A. Kopotun*, University of Manitoba
  (1041-41-69)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, IV
Room 124, Chemistry Building
Organizers:
Mizanur Rahman, Carleton University mrahman@math.carleton.ca
Diego Dominici, State University of New York New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Orthogonal Polynomials and Random Matrices.
  James A. Mingo*, Queen's University at Kingston
  (1041-33-84)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Integral representations for products of some Sturm-Liouville functions.
  Martin E Muldoon*, York University
  (1041-33-71)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Peakons and Cauchy biorthogonal polynomials.
  Jacek Szmigielski*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
  (1041-33-54)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Inquiries: meet@ams.org